April – May 2012 – Fulbright Senior Specialist, Faculty of Natural Science, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
April 2013: Consultant, US Department of Agriculture, Kabul, Afghanistan.
November 2013 – 17: Graduate student training component leader, US Agency for International Development, Islamabad, Pakistan.
September 2015 - Fulbright Senior Specialist award, Yezin Agricultural University, Naypyidaw, Myanmar
Named one of the three best publications of 2017. Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. (Alexander Lux, Milan Baláž, Marie Kummerová, Aleš Soukup, Olga Votrubová, Jun Abe, Shigenori Morita, Thomas Rost. 2017. Obrazový průvodce anatomií rostlin (Visual guide to plant anatomy). Publishing House Academia, Vodickova, Czech Republic.)
The Jury Prize for an Encyclopedia of Natural Science for 2017, from the Union of Interpreters and Translators (JTP), Prague, Czech Republic. (Alexander Lux, Milan Baláž, Marie Kummerová, Aleš Soukup, Olga Votrubová, Jun Abe, Shigenori Morita, Thomas Rost. 2017. Obrazový průvodce anatomií rostlin (Visual guide to plant anatomy). Publishing House Academia, Vodickova, Czech Republic.)