| Beginning 2026 | Cluster of Excellence “HUMAN ORIGINS”. PI |
| 2018-2021 | DFG, Excavations in the deep sounding of Sibudu. Director |
| 2014 | Contextualizing technological change in the MSA, Conference funding. PI |
| 2014-2019 | DFG, The Persion Gulf and the Out of Africa Hypothesis. Codirector |
| 2014-2017 | DFG, Excavations at the MSA Site of Sibudu. Director |
| 2013-2025 | DFG/SFB 1070, RessourcenKulturen. Lithic technology and raw material use at the transition from Middle to Upper Paleolithic. Co-director |
| 2013-2015 | DFG, Heat treatment in the MSA. Codirector |
| 2011-2013 | Lithic technology of the early Middle Stone Age in southern Africa, Director |
| 2010-2014 | Carl-Zeiss Stiftung, Grant for Structural Investment. Environmental Archaeology |
| 2010-2014 | DFG, Archäometallurgische und paläoanthropologische Untersuchungen des Gräberfeldes von Varna, Bulgarien, Co-director |
| 2009-present | DFG, Upper Paleolithic Technology in western Syria. Director |
| 2009-2013 | DFG,Excavations at the Middle Pleistocene site of Schöningen. Director |
| 2009-2013 | DFG, Untersuchungen zur Raumnutzung während des Jungpaläolithikums in der Nordlevante, Director |
| 2008-present | Wissenschaftsministerium Niedersachsen, Long-term project, Excavations at the Lower Paleolithic site of Schöningen. Co-supervision of excavations |
| 2008-2027 | Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Long-term project, The role of culture in early human Expansions. Co-director |
| 2007-present | Wissenschaftsministerium Baden-Württemberg, Excavations at Vogelherd. Director |
| 2006-2010 | State Exhibit of Baden-Würtemberg, Kulturen und Kunst der Eiszeit. Scientific director |
| 2006-present | German Archaeological Institute, Excavation grants for Iran and Syria, Director |
| 2006-2010 | DFG, Cave Bears and Humans in Southwestern Germany. Co-Director |
| 2005-present | Vogelherd Re-excavation Project. Funded by Kreis Heidenheim and the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg, Director |
| 2005 - 2008 | DFG, Geoarchaeology and Hearths of Sibudu Cave, Director |
| 2004-2007 | European Commission Culture 2000, Archaeology of the Alps, Project Director |
| 2004-2005 | Fullbright, Land-use in Swabia, Participant |
| 2004 | VW Stiftung, Workshop Neanderthals and modern humans, Host |
| 2003-2004 | EU Leader Project, Vogelherd, Participant |
| 2003-2006 | DFG, Equid Dentition and Paleoenvironments, Co-director |
| 2002-present | UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Project Caves of the Swabian Jura, funded by the Alb-Donau-Kreis and the Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg |
| 2000-2003 | DFG, Neanderthal DNA, Director |
| 1999-2003 | DFG, Geochemistry of Prehistoric Hearths Project, Director |
| 1998-2002 | DFG, ESR Dating of Pleistocene Equid teeth, Co-director |
| 1998-2003 | DFG, Achtal Paleolithic Faunal Project, Co-director |
| 1998- present | DFG, Stone Age Prehistory of the Geelbek Dunes Project, Director |
| 1997-present | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Geissenklösterle Project, Director |
| 1996-2001 | Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 275, Middle and Upper Paleolithic Project, Director |
| 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002 | DFG travel grants |
| 1993-1995 | Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship, Wallertheim and Metternich |
| 1993, 1994 | L.S.B. Leakey Foundation research grant, Wallertheim |
| 1992 | University of Connecticut Research Foundation grant, Wallertheim |
| 1990-1991 | Giza Plateau Mapping Project postdoctoral research fellowship |
| 1988, 1990 | Mellon West European research grant, Tönchesberg |
| 1987-1990 | Yale University fellowship |
| 1988-1989 | Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) research grant, Tönchesberg |
| 1988 | Dutch-Italian Science Academy travel grant |
| 1987 and 1988 | Yale Hazard grant, Excavations at Tönchesberg |
| 1987 | Sigma Xi grant, Excavations at Tönchesberg |
| 1987 | Yale University Williams grant, Excavations at Tönchesberg |
| 1985 | Norwegian Science Foundation travel grant |
| 1985-1986 | University of Rochester Department of Physics research fellowship |
| 1984 | DAAD Cologne-Rochester Fellowship |
| 1980-1983 | University of Rochester alumni scholarship |
| 1982 | Institute of European Studies scholarship, Freiburg, German |
