Awards

• Nokia Award for Communication Technology (1999)
  (Nokia Förderpreis Kommunikationstechnik)

• VDE Rhein/Ruhr Award for Outstanding Diploma Thesis (2002)
  (VDE Absolventenpreis)

• Top of the Year Award of the University of Dortmund (2002)
  (Jahrgangsbestenpreis 2002 des Rektors der Universität Dortmund)

• University of Dortmund PhD Thesis Award (2006)
  (Dissertationspreis 2006 der Universität Dortmund)

• ITG Award (2012)
  Award of Information Technology Society (ITG) of VDE for particularly outstanding research publications
  (VDE/ITG-Preis 2012)

• Best Paper Award (2019)
  Best Student Paper Award of Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP 2019) for publication on "Photonic Reservoir Computing enabled by Silicon Micro-Rings"
  (ACP Best Student Paper Award 2019)


• Best Paper Award (2023)
  Best Paper Award - OPTICA Advanced Photonics Congress 2023 for publication on "Full Spectrum WDM Nonlinear Frequency Division Multiplexed Transmission System using Spectral Overlap"
  (SPPCom Best Student Paper Award 2023)


• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (2022)
  Elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Class VI - Technical and Environmental Sciences.