2007 Best Paper Award (with Z.Miklos and
T. Schwentick) at the
26st ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database
Systems (PODS'07),
Beijing,China, June 11-14, 2007.
2006 Selected as Highly Cited Scientist by the Institute
of
Scientific Information (ISI).
2006 Elected Member of the German Academy of
Sciences Leopoldina.
2006 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
2006 Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences
Academia Europaea (London).
2005 ACM Recognition of Service Award (in Appreciation for
Contributions to ACM - General Chair PODS 2005).
2004 Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
2002 Fellow of ECCAI, the European Artificial Intelligence
Society.
2002 Visiting Professor, Université Paris VII, Denis
Diderot.
2002 Best Paper Award (with Ch. Koch) at the
21st ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database
Systems (PODS),
Madison, Wisconsin, June 2002.
2000 Honorary Scientist of the Guizhou Academy of Sciences,
Guyang, Guizhou, China.
1999 Best Paper Award (with F. Scarcello and M. Sideri) at the
5th
International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic
Reasoning. El Paso, Texas.
Elected Corresponding Member of the Austrian National Academy of
Sciences. 1999.
1999 Invited McKay Professor at the Computer Science Division,
EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley.
1998 Wittgenstein Award
Senior Fellow of the Christian Doppler Society, 1996.
Medal from Helsinki University for scientific achievement
in Computer Science. 1995.
Award of the Italian Society of Electrical Engineers, 1988
(with P. Paolini and R. Zicari).
Italian Government Scientific Visitor Scholarship (1982).
