• Elected Member of European Academy of Sciences, 2025 

• ISI Highly Cited Researcher (Cross Plant & Animal Science), 2024 

• World’s 3000 Most Influential Researchers (Thomson Reuters), 2014 

• ISI Highly Cited Researcher (Plant & Animal Science), 2014 

• King Saud Distinguished Fellow, 2011 

• Elected President of EPSO (European Plant Science Organization), 2010-13 

• France’s 100 Most Important Researchers, 2010 

• ISI Highly Cited Researcher (Plant & Animal Science), 2009 

• Elected Member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization), 2008 

• Member of Pauli Institute, 2006 

• Wittgenstein Prize, 2001 

• Award of the Austrian Society of Biochemistry, 1993 

• EMBO Fellowship, 1988 

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