- Elected Member of the Junge Akademie, Joint project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2016)

- Young Researcher of the Year, Academics Career Portal for Research and Science of ZEIT and the German Association of University Professors and Lecturer (2015)

- Lower Saxony Science Award, Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony (2015)

- Young Elite - Top 40 under 40, Category: State and Society (2015)

- Category: State and Society, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2015)

- Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, German Research Foundation and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (2015)

- Finalist Best Application Paper Award, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2014)

- Finalist Best Medical Robotics Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2013)

- Emmy Noether Programme, German Research Foundation (DFG) (2013)

- Best Technical Paper Presentation Award, 10th International Conference on Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery (2010)

- Best Poster Presentation Award, runner-up, 6th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Computer and Robot-assisted Surgery (2007)