Prizes, awards and recognition
Memberships and Fellowships
- Associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP): 2024 - 2029
- Member of the Global Young Academy (GYA); 2018 - 2023
- Fellow of GSO Leadership Academy 2018/19, German Scholars Organization (GSO); June 2018 - Feb 2019
Noteworthy Invitations
- 6th World Laureates Forum, Speaker; Nov 2023
- 10th World Science Forum, Plenary Speaker; Dec 2022
- 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Heraeus-Fellow; June 2019
Personal Awards
- NRF Rating: Established Researcher - Category C2, National Research Foundation (NRF); Jan 2021 - Dec 2026
- UNAM Meritorious Award 2017 for Best Academic Performance in the Faculty of Science, University of Namibia (UNAM); Apr 2018
- Honorable Mention in Gustav-Hertz-Award, German Physical Society (DPG); Mar 2015 (not eligible as not yet post-doc during the achievements leading to the award)
- GfKl Application Award 2012, German Data Science Society (GfKl); July 2013
Student Awards
- Online-Scholarship, e-fellows.net GmbH & Co. KG; Aug 2010 - Feb 2012
- Ph.D. Scholarship, Physics Faculty, TU Dortmund University; Apr 2008 - Mar 2011
- DPG A-levels Award, German Physical Society (DPG); June 2002
Group Awards
- Annie Maunder Medal for Outreach 2024: AMT Mobile Planetarium Team, Royal Astronomical Society; Jan 2024
- Top-Six of the 2010s’ Most Important Physics Developments: Likely Source of High-Energy “Ghost Particles” Identified (2018), Sigma Pi Sigma – The Physics Honor Society (American Institute of Physics); Apr 2020
- Science’s 2018 Breakthrough of the Year, Runner-Up: Messengers from a far-off galaxy, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): Science; Dec 2018
- ScienceNews Top 10 Science Story of 2018, rank 4: A neutrino’s distant source, Society for Science & the Public: Science News; Dec 2018
- SSPI Better Satellite World Award: DARA project, Space and Satellite Professionals International (SSPI); Oct 2018
- Science’s 2017 Breakthrough of the Year: Cosmic convergence, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): Science; Dec 2017
- Physics World 2017 Breakthrough of the Year: First multimessenger observation of a neutron-star merger, Institute of Physics (IOP): Physics World; Dec 2017
- ScienceNews Top 10 Science Story of 2017, rank 1: This year’s neutron star collision unlocks cosmic mysteries, Society for Science & the Public: Science News; Dec 2017
- THE International Collaboration of the Year: Cardiff University & UNAM Phoenix Project, Times Higher Education (THE); Nov 2017
- RSTI Award - Research Unit of the Year: UNAM Faculty of Science, National Commission on Research Science & Technology; Oct 2016