Sabine Rumpf

Prof. Dr. Sabine Rumpf is a faculty member in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel. Her research focuses on environmental influences on biotic systems, particularly in alpine and arctic ecosystems, with expertise in paleoecology, climate-driven range dynamics, and ecological modeling.

• Key research areas: Alpine ecology, biogeography, climate change impacts, environmental reconstruction
• Current projects: Ultra-high-resolution climate change assessments in Swiss mountain lakes, ecosystem development studies, spring ecology monitoring

She serves as an associate editor for Diversity and Distributions and guest editor for Journal of Vegetation Science. Active in interdisciplinary collaborations through the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center and Swiss Commission for Polar Research.

• 2020: Doc.Award (City of Vienna/University of Vienna)
• 2019: PhD Award (Ecological Society of DACH region)
• 2018: Austrian State Prize for Dissertations