Jürgen Kurths an zabe shi a matsayin ɗan takara na American Physical Society (1999). Ya sami lambar yabo ta bincike ta Alexander von Humboldt daga Majalisar Nazarin Kimiyya da Masana'antu (CSIR) (Indiya) a 2005. Ya zama memba na Academia Europaea a 2010 da na Kwalejin Kimiyya da Fasaha ta Macedonia a 2012 kuma an ba shi lambar girmamawa daga Jami'ar Lobachevsky a Nizhny Novgorod a 2008 da ɗaya daga Jami'ar Chernishevsky, Saratov. Shi farfesa ne na girmamawa a Jami'ar Potsdam kuma farfesa bako a Jami'ar Kudu maso Gabas a Nanjing. An ba shi lambar yabo ta Lewis Richard Fryson Medal na Tarayyar Turai a 2013. Tambaya: A wace cibiyar ilimi ne shi farfesa ne na girmamawa?
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