AWARDS AND HONOURS: 2002-2004 PhD Scholarship by the German Chemical Industry Funds 2006-2008 Postdoc Fellowship by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2008 Emmy-Noether Fellowship by the German Research Council 2013 Heisenberg Fellowship by the German Research Council 2013 Calls by the Universities of Bonn (accepted) and Hamburg (declined) 2014 Young talent award for Natural Product Chemists by Dechema 2016- Guest Professor and Honorary Fellow at Netherlands Institute for Chemical Ecology NIOO-KNAW (Wageningen) 2019- Honored Professor of Overseas Expertise Introduction Center at Zhejiang University of Technology (China)