text: * 2016 GIAN fellow (Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development)
  * 2015 Catalysis Society of South Africa (CATSA eminent visitor)
  * 2014 European Research Council Consolidator Grant
  * 2013 Bessel Award (Humboldt Foundation)
  * 2011 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
  * 2008 Visiting Professor (University of Otago, New Zealand)
  * 2007 European Research Council Starting Grant
  * 2002 Alfred Werner Assistant Professorship (Alfred Werner Foundation)
  * 2001 Bakker price from the Royal Dutch Chemical Society (KNCV)