Awards
- Erudite Visiting Professor, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala India, 2011 and 2015
- Honorary Medal of the Polymer Institute Bratislava, 2003
(in recognition of the long-term contacts and cooperation with the Polymer Institute Bratislava in the field of IPN systems, electrically conductive polymer blends, composites, and nanocomposites, which resulted in a number of publications and presentations) - "Innovation Award of the Friends of the IPF", 1997
(P. Pötschke, K. Wallheinke, G. Pompe, K. Grundke, J. Pionteck) - "Science Award of the TU Dresden", III. class, 1988
(K. Schwetlick, C. Rüger, T. König, J. Pionteck, W. D. Habicher)