Prof. Dr. Sabine Rumpf
Professor
Sabine Rumpf
Philosophisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Departement Umweltwissenschaften
FG Rumpf

Professor

Bernoullistrasse 30/32
4056 Basel
Schweiz

Tel. +41 61 207 36 02
sabine.rumpf@unibas.ch

Curriculum Vitae

Academic degrees

2018

PhD in biology, University of Vienna, Austria: Climate-driven range dynamics and current disequilibrium in Alpine vegetationv
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Dullinger

2012

Master in ecology, University of Vienna, Austria: Idiosyncratic responses of high arctic plants to varying snow depths
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Dullinger
Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Cooper, University of Tromsø (Norway)

Professional experience

Since 2022

Tenure track assistant professor, University of Basel, Switzerland

2019-21

Postdoc, Spatial Ecology Group, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

2019

Postdoctoral fellow of the Schimper foundation (‘A.F.W. Schimper-Stiftung für ökologische Forschungen’), University of Otago, New Zealand

2013-14

Research associate, GLORIA co-ordination (Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments), Vienna, Austria

Awards

2020

Doc.Award, City of Vienna and University of Vienna

2019

PhD Award, Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland

2018

Award of Excellence, Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (‘Staatspreis für die besten Dissertationen’)

2017

Young Talent Award, Climate Change Centre Austria (‘CCCA-Nachwuchspreis’)

2013

Best early-career talk at the conference Faster, Higher, More? Past, present and future dynamics of alpine and arctic flora under climate change (Bergün, Switzerland)

Editorial activities

Associate editor of the journal Diversity and Distributions

Memberships

Swiss Society of Plant Biology
Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center
Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland
International Biogeography Society
Research Network Sustainable Future