Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
He was awarded the 2015 Milner Award by the Royal Society. He received a Doctor honoris causa from the Masaryk University as well as the Wittgenstein Prize of the Austrian Science Fund. He is an ACM Fellow and an ISI Highly Cited Researcher. He is ranked as the number one cited researcher in Austria according to "h"-index data.