2011 Wilhelmshaven-Award for Marine and Coastal Research 2011 (young researcher award); press release_1; press release_2
2009 Hildegard- und Karl-Heinrich Heitfeld award for the best Ph.D. thesis in 2009 at the Department for Geology and Palaeontology / WWU Münster; press release
10-12/2008 guest scientist at the Department of Geosciences at Texas A&M University, College Station (USA)
2001-2002 scholarship to participate in the study abroad program at the Department of Earth Sciences at the James Cook University in Queensland, Australia
