11/2022 Invitation by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation to act as co-chair of the session „Middle East Studies” for the 13th German-Israeli Frontiers of Humanities (GISFOH) Symposium in Jerusalem, November 06-09, 2022
04/2021 Inaugural Book Award of the South Asian Muslim Studies Association (SAMSA) for In a Pure Muslim Land. Shiʿism between Pakistan and the Middle East
10/2019-09/2020 Junior Fellowship, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), granting teaching relief for one year
05/2019-05/2014 Elected Member of the German Young Academy, a joint initiative of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
12/2017-08/2019 Research Award, Special Programme of the Gerda Henkel Foundation “Islam, the Modern Nation State and Transnational Movements” for my research project on the global intellectual history of the Iranian Revolution
09/2017 Research Prize of the Annemarie-Schimmel-Stiftung für Islamkunde, Bonn, Germany
06/2016 Bayard and Cleveland Dodge Memorial Dissertation Prize 2016 for best PhD dissertation, awarded by the Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
02/2016 S. S. Pirzada Dissertation Prize on Pakistan, awarded by the Institute for South Asia Studies, University of California Berkeley (Members of the Prize Committee: Prof. Manan Ahmed (Columbia University), Prof. Munis Faruqui (UC Berkeley), Prof. Farooq Hamid (UC Riverside), and Prof. Saba Mahmood (UC Berkeley)
10/2015 Cambridge Humanities Research Grant Scheme Travel Award for Research on Transnational Islam in Egypt and Pakistan
07/2015 – 09/2015 Grant for research on transnational Shīʿism in German archives, awarded by The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University
09/2014 – 06/2015 Dissertation Writing Grant, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), Princeton University
07/2014 Research Student Award, awarded for the best graduate student paper by the European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS) during the 23rd Conference on South Asian Studies, Zurich, Switzerland
09/2013 – 08/2014 Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Dissertation Fellowship