German Science Foundation (DFG) Mercator Fellowship (2018)

University of Florida Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Teacher of the Year Award (2018)

Fellowship at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study, Germany) to work on the project 'Aerogel Catalysts with a Hierarchy of Pore Sizes: Relationship between Gas Transport, Structural Properties and Catalytic Performance' (2014)

NSF CAREER: Fundamentals of the relationship between pore structure and transport of light gases in materials with a hierarchy of pore sizes (2010)