| 2017 – 2018 |
Member of the Committee on U.S.-Based Electron-Ion Collider Science Assessment, U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
| 2013 – |
Member of the DoE Nuclear Physics Comparative Review Panel, Gaithersburg,Maryland (USA) |
| 2012 – |
Member of the Research Council 'Field of Focus 2', Heidelberg UNiversity (Germany) |
| 2012 – 2013 |
Member of the Preparatory Group, European Strategy Group, CERN Council |
| 2008 – 2014 |
Member of the Alexander von Humboldt Professor Selection Committee |
| 2007 – 2012 |
Member of the Scientific Policy Committee, CERN (Switzerland) |
| 2018 |
Stern-Gerlach Medal of the German Physical Society 2019 (together with Johanna Stachel) |
| 2014 |
Lise Meitner Prize of the European Physical Society (together with Paolo Giubellino, Jürgen Schukraft, Johanna Stachel) |
| 2011 – 2016 |
Chair of the ALICE Collaboration Board |
| 2011 |
Elected Member of the Academia Europaea |
| 2008 |
Werner Heisenberg Medal of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
| 2005 – |
Chair of the Schleching Organizing Committee "Arbeitstreffen Kernphysik") |
| 2003 – 2006 |
Chair of the Board of Directors, ECT*, Trento (Italy) |
| 2003 |
Prize of the Polish Ministry of Science |
| 1998 – 2010 |
Project Leader, ALICE TPC |
| 1994 |
Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) |
| 1984 – 1999 |
Spokesperson, AGS Experiments E814 and E877 |
| 1970 – 1972 |
Fellowship, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes |