• CORECHED Prize 2009: Pize of the Swiss Council for Educational Research, together with Franz Baeriswyl, Christian Wandeler and Karin Oswald
• Honorary Professor in Psychology at the Freie Universität Berlin (2008)
• Young Scientist Award of the Section of Educational Psychology of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) (2004)
• Otto Hahn Medal of the der Max Planck Society (2003)

• Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ministry of Education Baden-Württemberg, which accompanies the reorganization of the quality development of the school system in Baden-Württemberg
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ZEPPELIN project at the Interkantonale Hochschule für Heilpädagogik in Zürich
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Binational School of Education (BISE), University of Konstanz
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Hector Children's Academies
• Chairman of the review panel of the Young Scholars Research Grant Program of the Jacobs Foundation, which takes place annually in the context of the Jacobs Foundation Conference in Marbach

• Director of the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology
• Co-Director LEAD Graduate School & Research Network

• AERA Open
• International Journal of Psychology
• Learning and Instruction
• Motivation and Emotion

American Educational Research Journal, Cross-Cultural Research, Developmental Psychology, Diagnostica, Educational Research and Evaluation, Empirische Pädagogik, European Journal of Personality, European Journal of Psychology of Education, European Journal of Social Psychology, European Sociological Review, International Journal for Behavioral Development, International Journal of Psychology, International Review of Social Psychology, Journal of Early Adolescence, Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Research on Adolescence, Learning and Individual Differences, Learning and Instruction, Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht, School Evaluation and School Improvement, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Bildungswissenschaften, Self and Identity, Social Psychology of Education, Unterrichtswissenschaft, Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie, Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, Zeitschrift für Evaluation, Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie

• German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Israel Science Foundation
• Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
• Swiss National Science Foundation
• Series "Pädagogische Psychologie und Entwicklungspsychologie" (publisher: Waxmann), edited by Detlef H. Rost