Awards:

1979: Research Award from the city of Innsbruck

1994: Golden Medal Price, Faculty Mathematics/Physics, University Bratislava

1994: Erwin-Schrödinger Price of the Austrian Academy of Science, Wien

1996: SASP-Schrödinger Award 1996, Engelberg, Schweiz

2004: J.Heyrovsky Honorary Medal for Merit in the Chemical Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Praha

2004: Honorary doctoral degree, Dr.h.c. Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon

2004: Golden Medal Award from the Comenius University of Bratislava

2006: Honorary doctoral degree, Dr. h.c. Comenius University, Bratislava

2007: UPV Price by the Austrian University Professor Association

2008: Elected member of German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle (Saale)

2009: Wolfgang Paul Lecture Award, DGMS, Konstanz

2013: Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, France

2014: Großes Goldenes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich

2014: Senator honoris causa, Freie Universität Bozen

2015: Ehrensenator, Privatuniversität UMIT, Hall

2015: President’s International Medaillon of Distinction, University of New Orleans

2016: Ehrenzeichen des Landes Tirol

2018: Dissociative Electron Attachment Club Distinguished Servcie Award

2023: Ehrenmitgliedschaft Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv, UIBK