Germany, Switzerland, Mongolia, Siberia, Central Asia, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, South Africa, Ethiopia, Tanzania
2014 SNSF-Professorship
2011 SNSF Ambizione Fellowship
2011 Oral presentation award, AK Geomorphologie, Leipzig
2011 Oral presentation award, Int. Conference on Paleopedology, Hohenheim
2010 Oral presentation award, GASIR (German Ass. Stable Isotopes), Cologne
2008 SNSF Postdoctoral Fellowship
2003 Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Bergen, Norway
2001 Fellowship of the 'Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, e.V.'
2000 Scholarship of the Indiana University, USA