* 2023: EPS CMD Europhysics Prize
* 2022: Member of the Academy od Sciences and Literature
* 2002: Blaise Pascal Medal of the European Academy of Sciences    
* 2022: Liebig commemorative coin of the GDCh (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker)    
* 2022: Max Born Medal and Prize of the German Physical Society (DPG) and the British Institute of Physics (IOP)
* 2021: International Member of National Academy of Science (NAS), US
* 2020: International Member of National Academy of Engineering  (NAE), US 
* 2019: APS James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials with Bernevig and Dai 
* 2018: Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
* 2016: Elected fellow of the IEEE (magnetic society)
* 2015: Tsungming Tu Award
* 2014: Alexander M. Cruickshank Lecturer Award
* 2013: Elected American Physical Society (APS) fellow (Division of Condensed Matter Physics)
* 2010: Nakamura Lecture Award of the University of California Santa Barbara
* 2001: Order of Merit (Landesverdienstorden) of the federal state Rhineland-Palatinate for the foundation of the first NAT-LAB for school students at the University Mainz with a focus in female school students
She is the chairwoman of a German Research Foundation research group.  She was a member of the 13th Bundesversammlung (Germany).