2013: Agathe Lasch research prize (agathe-lasch.de/Agathe-Lasch-Preis)
2019: UAntwerp Education Board teaching award
2021- Senior Research Associate, Rhodes University (SA)
2022: Fulbright Scholar, University of California, Davis (USA)
2023- Chief Researcher, Kaunas University of Technology (LT)
2023- Extraordinary Professor, Stellenbosch University (SA)

Board Member of:
European Day of Languages Platform, epos
Academic Council of the University Foundation for Poverty Reduction, USAB
Belgischer Germanisten- und Deutschlehrerverband
Kommission für Mundart- und Namenforschung Westfalens