Honors, Awards, Functions, Professional Activities: Award for Innovative Teaching, Ruhr University, 2010 Julius van Haast Award of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2015 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016 Elsevier Award for Outstanding Achievements in Bioorganometallic Chemistry, 2019 Chairman of Third German Ferrocene Colloquium, Heidelberg, 2005 Chairman of the Fifth International Symposium on Bioorganometallic Chemistry (ISBOMC’10), Bochum, 2010 Chair of the 2016 Gordon Conference "Metals in Medicine" (with K. Franz, Duke Univ., NC) Speaker of DFG Research Unit (Forschergruppe) FOR 630, 2006-2013 Councillor of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC) 2012 - 2015 Guest Editor for Thematic Issue of Chemical Reviews “Metals in Medicine”, 2019 Associate Editor for Bioinorganic Chemistry Dalton Transactions, 2013 – 2019 Designated Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (JBIC), 2020 –