Dr. Christine Blume
Post-Doctoral Researcher & Junior Group Leader
Centre for Chronobiology
University of Basel
Switzerland
Switzerland
Cognitive Behavioural Therapist for Insomnia (CBT-I)
Outpatient Sleep Clinic
Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel
Switzerland
Switzerland
Christine Blume, PhD, is a psychologist and Junior Group Leader at the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Basel. After studying psychology at the Universities of Würzburg (Germany) and Cambridge (UK), she moved to Salzburg (Austria), where she completed her PhD at the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience. Her research focuses on the effects of electric light, natural daylight, physical activity and other factors that characterise life in a modern society on sleep and circadian rhythms. She is also a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist for Insomnia (CBT-I) at the Sleep Clinic of the Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel.
In addition to her research, she loves to talk about sleep science and share her knowledge. She is a well-known science communicator, particularly in the German-speaking media, and has been co-hosting a weekly science podcast called “Über Schlafen (English: “About Sleep”) on Deutschlandfunk Nova since May 2023. Outside of science, she plays the cello in the University of Basel Orchestra and loves hiking and cross-country skiing in the mountains. She joined the ESRS Scientific Committee in 2022 and was an elected member of the ESRS Early Career Network (ECN) from 2020 to 2024.