2019/08 | AET Fellow at International Academy for Engineering & Technology |
2018/04 | DCU Invent’s Commercialisation Awards for Innovation Partnership with Mergon |
2017/01 | Appointment as founding director of FPC@DCU - Fraunhofer Project Centre for Embedded Bioanalytical Systems at Dublin City University (Ireland) |
2016/02 | President’s Researcher of the Year award at Dublin City University (Ireland) |
2016/01 | Appointment as chair of IEEE MEMS 2018 conference in Belfast (Northern Ireland) |
2015/06 | Appointment to editorial board of journal Microsystems & Nanoengineering, Nature Publishing Group (United Kingdom) |
2014/03 | Appointment as Full Professor Microsystems at the School of Physical Sciences, Dublin City University (Ireland) |
2013/12 | Offer for Professorship Technologien der Mikro- und Nanotechnik at TU Dortmund (Germany) |
2012/10 | Appointment as chair of MicroTAS 2016 conference in Dublin (Ireland) |
2011/12 | Invent award for engagement with business/industry and licensing at Dublin City University (Ireland) |
2011/12 | Invent commercialisation award for lab-in-a-trench technology at Dublin City University (Ireland) |
2011/12 | Invent commercialisation award for glassy coating technology at Dublin City University (Ireland) |
2011/04 | Offer for CEO of the Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH – now Fraunhofer ICT-IMM (Germany) |
2010/12 | Invent commercialisation award at Dublin City University (Ireland) |
2009/12 | Invent commercialisation award at Dublin City University (Ireland) |
2008/05 | Appointment as Principal Investigator Microfluidic Platforms at the SFI–CSET BDI – Biomedical Diagnostics Institute (Ireland) |
2008/02 | Appointment as Associate Professor Microsystem Technologies at the School of Physical Sciences, Dublin City University (Ireland) |
2006/07 | FAM-award for excellence of scientific achievements in Microsystems Technology at the University of Freiburg (Germany) |
2005/01 | Top10 Innovation at the ALA LabAutomation, San Jose (USA) |
1998/04 | DAAD scholarship for research visit to James R. MacDonald Laboratory (USA) |
1996/06 | Invited research visit to Department of Physics at Kansas State University (USA) |
1992/03 | European Erasmus scholarship for research visit at the TU Eindhoven (The Netherlands) |