- "Best oral presentation" WSSFN 16th quadrenial meeting Tokyo, Japan (2013)
- "Best oral presentation" 20th bi-annual meeting of the European society for stereotactic and functional neurosurgery (ESSFN), Lisbon, Portugal (2012)
- Scholarship from the Wilhelm Tönnis Foundation of the DGNC (German Society for Neurosurgery), endowed with € 10,000 (2008)
- "Kurt Decker Prize" of the German Society for Neuroradiology for the work: Timo Krings, Volker A. Coenen, Hubertus Axer et al (2001)
- Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, Bonn (1993)