 Since 2011, Hinrichs has been a member of the "Board of Reviewing Editors" of Science.In 2011, Hinrichs was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.Hinrichs is also a two-times recipient of the Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (DARCLIFE project, 2009 competition; ZooMecular project, 2014 competition).