Auszeichnungen und Lehraufträge
Awards
| 1984 | Otto Bayer Price |
| 1989 | Philip Morris Technology Price |
| 1990 | Hermann Staudinger Medal of the German Chemical Society |
| 1995 | Society of Plastics Engineers |
| Award for outstanding Achievement in Plastics Research | |
| 1998 | ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry |
| 1998 | Conference Victor Grignard de la Société Française de Chimie |
| 1998 | Award of the Society of Polymer Science Japan |
| 2003 | FEMs – European Materials Medal |
| 2003 | Federal Cross of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) Germany |
| 2004 | H.F. Mark-Medal, Österreichisches Forschungsinstitut Wien |
| 2004 | Marin-Drinov Medal of Bulgarian Academy of Science |
| 2008 | Medal of Merit awarded by the Federal State of Rhineland Palatinate |
Lectureships (selected)
| 1979 | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass., USA |
| 1986 | University of Arizona, Tucson, Az., USA, (Marvel-Monsanto lectureship) |
| 1987 | University of Milan, Milan, Italy |
| 1988 | University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (Smets lectureship) |
| 1990 | University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA |
| 1991 | University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1992 | University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy |
| 1992 | University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada |
| 1994 | Baker Lectureship, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA |
| 1995 | University of Akron, Ohio, USA |
| 1997 | Rolf Sammet Lectureship, University of Frankfurt, Germany |
| 1997 | Xerox-Lectureship, Halifax, Canada |
| 1997 | Butler-Lectureship, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla |
| 2005 | Solomon Lectures, Brisbane, Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne, Australia |
Honorary degrees
| 2000 | Doctor in humane letters, University of Massachusetts, Lowell |
| 2004 | Honorary Doctorate of Engineering Science, University of Erlangen- Nuremberg, Germany |
| 2004 | Honorary Member Society of Polymer Science, Japan |
| 2004 | Honorary Professorship Nankai University, China |
| 2004 | Honorary Member A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petro-chemical Synthesis, Russian Academy of Science |
| 2005 | Doctor honoris causa, Technical University of Lodz, Poland |
| 2007 | Honorary Doctorate University of Patras, Greece |
| 2011 | Honorary Doctorate ETH, Zurich/Switzerland |
| 2014 | Honorary member, Chinese Chemical Society, |
| 2014 | Honorary Professor ICCAS, Beijing |
Memberships (selected)
Board of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) (1996-2002)
Board of DECHEMA, Frankfurt/M./Germany
Academia Europaea
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
Commission for Scientific Integrity of the Austrian Science, Vienna (2008 – present)