Memberships
| Since | Position | Organization |
| 2012 | Honorary Member | German Physical Society |
| 2011 | Foreign Member | Russian Academy of Sciences |
| 2010 | Honorary Member | Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| 2010 | Member | Pontificia Academia Scientiarium |
| 2010 | Foreign Member | Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2009 | Foreign Member | Polish Academy of Sciences |
| 2009 | Honorary Member | Technische Universität Berlin |
| 2009 | Honorary Member | Deutscher Hochschulverband |
| 2008 | Honorary Member | Dechema (German Society of Chemical Technology) |
| 2008 | Honorary Member | GDCh (German Chemical Society) |
| 2008 | Honorary Member | Berliner Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft |
| 2008 | Honorary Member | European Academy of Sciences and Art |
| 2008 | Honorary Member | Physikalischer Verein, Frankfurt a.M. |
| 2007 | Honorary Fellow | Royal Society of Chemistry |
| 2006 | Honorary Member | Royal Society of Chemistry |
| 2002 | Foreign Associate | National Academy of Sciences |
| 2001 | Corresponding Member | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| 1998 | Corresponding Member | Bavarian Academy of Sciences |
| 1993 | Member | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences |
| 1993 | Foreign Honorary Member | American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 1993 | Corresponding Member | Nordrhein.-Westfal. Academy of Sciences |
| 1992 | Member | Academia Europaea |
| 1986 | Corresponding Member | Scientific Society of Braunschweig |
| 1986 | Member | German Academy of Sciences, “Leopoldina” |
| 1985 | Honorary Fellow | Royal Society of Edinburgh |