| 2017 – 2018 | 
Member of the Committee on U.S.-Based Electron-Ion Collider Science Assessment, U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine | 
| 2013 – | 
Member of the DoE Nuclear Physics Comparative Review Panel, Gaithersburg,Maryland (USA) | 
| 2012 – | 
Member of the Research Council 'Field of Focus 2', Heidelberg UNiversity (Germany) | 
| 2012 – 2013 | 
Member of the Preparatory Group, European Strategy Group, CERN Council | 
| 2008 – 2014 | 
Member of the Alexander von Humboldt Professor Selection Committee | 
| 2007 – 2012 | 
Member of the Scientific Policy Committee, CERN (Switzerland) | 
| 2018 | 
Stern-Gerlach Medal of the German Physical Society 2019 (together with Johanna Stachel) | 
| 2014 | 
Lise Meitner Prize of the European Physical Society (together with Paolo Giubellino, Jürgen Schukraft, Johanna Stachel) | 
| 2011 – 2016 | 
Chair of the ALICE Collaboration Board | 
| 2011 | 
Elected Member of the Academia Europaea | 
| 2008 | 
Werner Heisenberg Medal of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | 
| 2005 – | 
Chair of the Schleching Organizing Committee "Arbeitstreffen Kernphysik") | 
| 2003 – 2006 | 
Chair of the Board of Directors, ECT*, Trento (Italy) | 
| 2003 | 
Prize of the Polish Ministry of Science | 
| 1998 – 2010 | 
Project Leader, ALICE TPC | 
| 1994 | 
Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) | 
| 1984 – 1999 | 
Spokesperson, AGS Experiments E814 and E877 | 
| 1970 – 1972 | 
Fellowship, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes |