1979

Buchpreis der VDI-Gesellschaft Verfahrenstechnik und Chemie-Ingenieurwesen (GVC) für das Vordiplom im Studiengang „Verfahrenstechnik“

1988

Preis der Freunde der Universität Stuttgart für die Dissertation

1989

NATO-Stipendium für Postdoktoranden

1990

Arnold-Eucken-Preis der VDI-Gesellschaft Verfahrenstechnik und Chemie-Ingenieurwesen (GVC)

1997

Best Paper Award, International Conference on Distillation & Absorption, Maastricht

1999

Olaf A. Hougen Visiting Professor am Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison

2001

Leibniz-Preis der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

2003

Best Paper Award, Int. Conf. on Foundations of Process Operations, FOCAPO 2003

2004

Best Paper Award, Int. Conf. on Foundations of Process Design, FOCAPD 2004

2004

11th Roger Sargent Lecture, 2004, Imperial College, London

2005

Best Paper Award, European Symp. Computer-Aided Process Engineering, Escape-15

2006

Best Poster Award, IFAC Symposium on Advanced Process Control, Adchem 2006

2007

Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC Fellow)

2008

Danckwerts Lecture, 2008 AIChE Annual Meeting, Philaelphia, USA

2009

Best Poster Award, Int. Conf. on Process Systems Engineering, PSE 2009

2010 

atp Award, “Bester Beitrag -. Hochschule”, Automationskongress Baden-Baden, 2010

2011

Best Paper Award, Computers and Chemical Engineering