For his work on the attosecond control and synthesis of light waves he has been awarded the Georgios Foteinos Prize [ el ] of the Academy of Athens in 2007, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Young Scientist Prize in Optics of the International Commission for Optics in 2009, the Gustav Hertz Prize of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) in 2013. and the Röntgen Prize [ de ] of the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen in 2015.