ACADEMIC AWARDS
- „Aristeion“: Honor Prize, awarded to the best graduate
- Honor Prize for the best diploma-dissertation
- „Honor Prize of Ethniki Trapeza of Hellas for Medicine“, awarded to the best graduate of the medical faculty
- 1991 „Top International Opinion Leader in Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses“ by „Peer Group Consensus“ procedure, initiated and awarded by “Paul Janssen International Research”
- listed in „Leading Medical Researchers of Germany“
- „Richard-von-Krafft-Ebing Research Prize for Distinct Research in Forensic Psychiatry“ (together with co-workers Dr. Simone Ullrich, and Prof. Dr. jur. Dieter Rössner)
- 2002 „Emil-Kraepelin Research Prize for Distinct Research in Psychoses, especially in Schizoaffective and Acute Brief Psychoses“, additionally Kraepelin-Alzheimer Medal
- Medal of Honour of the Cyprus Society of Psychiatrists
- 2003 Honorary Doctorate (Doctoris honoris causa) by the Medical Faculty of the University of Athens/Greece
- 2004 Confirmation of belonging continuously to the „Leading Medical Researchers of Germany“
- Honorary Doctorate by Aristotle University Thessaloniki/Greece
- 2011 Professor honoris causa at Córdoba University/Argentina
- 2016 Berliner Griesinger-Medaille der BGPN (Berliner Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und Neurologie)
PUBLICATIONS
- More than 600, including 40 books