Awards / Memberships

Honors, Awards, Fellowships

• 1986 Studienabschlußstipendium, FCI
• 1987 Schering Prize of the year 1986
• 1987 Feodor-Lynen Scholarship
• 1993  invited participant at the U.S. symposium Frontiers of Sciences, Nat. Acad. Sciences
• 1994 Winnacker award, Hoechst AG
• 1994 Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz Prize, BMBW
• 1995 Heisenberg Scholarship, DFG
• 1996 Steinhofer Prize, GDCh / BASF
• 1997/1998 Wilsmore Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia
• 1998 - 2000 Visiting Professor at the University of Glasgow
• 1999 Wilsmore Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia
• 2003 - 2006 Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
• 2009 -  Visiting Professor, University of Maryland (UMD)
• 2009 Martin Summerfield Award, Cape Town
• Honorary Fellowship by the High Energy Materials Society of India (HEMSI)

Membership of Professional Soc.

• Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
• Royal Society of Chemistry, C.Chem. F.R.S.C.
• American Chemical Society (ACS) (# 2124742)
• Fluorine Division of the ACS
• International Pyrotechnics Society, Life Member
• Gesellschaft von Freunden der TU Berlin
• Münchner Universitätsgesellschaft
• National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA, life member)

Editorial board

• Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie (ZAAC, executive editor)
• Journal of Fluorine Chemistry (J Fluorine Chem)
• Central European Journal of Energetic Materials (CEJEM, Subject Editor in the area of explosives synthesis)
• Propellants, Explosives and Pyrotechnics (PEP)
• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
• International Journal of Energetic Materials and Chemical Propulsion (IJEMCP)
• European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (EurJIC), (1998-2008)
• Internatial Journal of Vibrational Spectroskopy (IJVS), (1998-2006)

Organizer of conferences

• 6th Int. Symp. on Inorganic Ring Systems (IRIS VI), Berlin, Aug. 1991 (with R. Steudel)
• NATO Workshop on Structur and Bonding, ERICE 2001, Sicily, June 2001 (with I. Hargittai and A. Domenicano)
• 6th Int. Conf. Inorganic Chemistry, AGICHEM 2002, April 7 – 10, 2002, Munich  (Chairman)
• 7th Seminar "New Trends in Research of Energetic Materials, Pardubice, Czech Republic, April 20-22, 2004 (Scientific Committee).
• 8th Seminar "New Trends in Research of Energetic Materials, Pardubice, Czech Republic, April 18-20, 2005 (Scientific Committee).
• 9th Seminar "New Trends in Research of Energetic Materials, Pardubice, Czech Republic, April 19-21, 2006 (Scientific Committee).
• 10th Seminar "New Trends in Research of Energetic Materials, Pardubice, Czech Republic, April 25-27, 2007 (Scientific Committee).
• 11th Seminar "New Trends in Research of Energetic Materials, Pardubice, Czech Republic, April 09-11, 2008 (Scientific Committee).
• 12th Seminar "New Trends in Research of Energetic Materials, Pardubice, Czech Republic, April 01-03, 2009 (Scientific Committee).
• 13th Seminar "New Trends in Research of Energetic Materials, Pardubice, Czech Republic, April 21-23, 2010 (Scientific Committee).
• 14th Seminar "New Trends in Research of Energetic Materials, Pardubice, Czech Republic, April 12-15, 2011 (Scientific Committee).
• 15th Seminar "New Trends in Research of Energetic Materials, Pardubice, Czech Republic, April 18-20, 2012 (Scientific Committee).
• 16th Seminar "New Trends in Research of Energetic Materials, Pardubice, Czech Republic, April 10-12, 20139 (Scientific Committee).