| 1966: | Prize of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University Tübingen, for the Diploma Thesis |
| 1969-1971: | Postdoctoral Fellowship of Stiftung Volkswagenwerk (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) |
| 1980: | Fellowship of the Universitè Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, as Guest Professor |
| 1995: | Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel on Chirality of Drugs and Chiral Recognition |
| 1998: | Memorial Medal of the Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, for co-developing „New Curriculum of Chiral Chemistry“ (TEMPUS-Phare project). |
| 2001: | Honorary Membership of the Slovak Pharmaceutical Society |
| 2003: | Convention Intercantonale Romande pour L'enseignement du 3e Cycle en Chimie, Lecturing Professor, Univ. Basel |
| 2003: | Fellowship Award of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science |
| 2003: | Consultancy of Exomars Rover Mission: Pasteur Instrument Payload, European Space Agency (ESA), Noordwijk, The Netherlands |
| 2004: | M. J. E. Golay Award and Medal of Chromatography (Riva del Garda, Italy). Slides of the Award-Lecture (Powerpoint 24MByte) download here! |
| 2004: | Chirality Medal (New York, USA). Slides of the Award-Lecture (Powerpoint 22MByte) download here! |
| 2005: | Research Prize (12.500 Euro) of the TL-Foundation (Transtec-Lantronix, Tübingen) on the topic: Miniaturized Gas Chromatography for the Determination of Extraterrestrial Asymmetry |
| 2005: | Top Cited Article Award 2000-2004
Journal of Chromatography (Elsevier):
- "Separation of Enantiomers by Gas Chromatography"
- "Enantiomer Separation of Chiral Pharmaceuticals by Capillary Electrochromatography" |
| 2008: | Dr. Ján Weber Prize and Medal
of the Slovakian Pharmaceutical Society |
| 2009: | Honorary Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Chromatography A |
| 2010: | Visiting Professor at the King Saud University, KSU (http://www.ksu.edu.sa) |
| 2010: | Special Issue "Chiral Separations" in Honour of Prof. Volker Schurig, J. Chromatogr. A 1217 (2010) 925-1182 |
| 2014: | The Essay on the Chirality Experiment of the Rosetta Mission by U. J. Meierhenrich et al. is dedicated to Professor Volker Schurig on the occasion of his 75th birthday (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55 (2014) 2-13) |
| 2016: | Honorary Conference Chair of "The 28th International Symposium on Chiral Discrimination" (Chirality 2016), Heidelberg, Germany (http://www.chirality2016.com) |
