| 2021 – |
Co-Speaker of excellence cluster STRUCTURES, Heidelberg University (Germany) |
| 2015 – 2017 |
Director of the Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University (Germany) |
| 2016 |
ERC Advanced Grant for „EntangleGen - Entanglement Generation in Universal Quantum Dynamics" |
| 2012 – 2016 |
Member of the ERC selection panel for starting grants |
| 2012 – |
Member of the Senate Committee on Research Training Groups of the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| 2009 – 2013 |
Spokesperson of the Heidelberg Graduate School for Fundamental Physics (HGSFP) |
| 2009 – 2014 |
Member of the Gustav-Hertz-Prize Committee of the German Physical Society |
| 2008 |
Prize for Fundamental Research of the Federal State of Baden-Wurttemberg |
| 2005 – 2008 |
Member of the Minerva Committee (Max Planck Society) |
| 2001 – 2003 |
Emmy-Noether-Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| 1996 |
European Optics Prize of the European Optical Society |