Ko Jürgen Kurths he hoa whiriwhiri o te American Physical Society (1999). I riro i a ia he tohu rangahau Alexander von Humboldt mai i te Kaunihera mo te Rangahau Pūtaiao me te Ahumahi (CSIR) (India) i te tau 2005. Kua noho ia hei mema o te Academia Europaea i te tau 2010 me te Whare Wananga o nga Pūtaiao me nga Toi o Maketonia i te tau 2012 ka whakawhiwhia ki a ia he Dr. honoris causa mai i te Whare Wananga o Lobachevsky i Nizhny Novgorod i te tau 2008 me tetahi mai i te Whare Wananga o Chernishevsky, Saratov. Ko ia te kaiwhakaako honore i te Whare Wananga o Potsdam me te kaiwhakaako manuhiri i te Whare Wananga o te Tonga ki Nanjing. I whakawhiwhia ia ki te Lewis Richard Fryson Medal o te Uniana Geosciences o te Uniana o Europi i te 2013.
Te Whare Wānanga o Potsdam