Sabine Renate Huebner/Hübner (born 1976) is professor of Ancient History and head of department at the University of Basel in Switzerland.
[2] After receiving her PhD she was a Postdoc, adjunct assistant professor and visiting research scholar at several research institutions in the United States: at the University of California at Berkeley in 2005; at Columbia University from 2006 to 2009; at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) in New York City in 2007–2008; and at the Institute for Advanced Study (School of Historical Studies) in Princeton, New Jersey in 2010.
In 2011/12, she was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, in 2011/12 membre eluée at the "Orient et Méditerranée" at the Collège de France, Paris, and in 2012/13 visiting scholar at the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae and the British School at Rome.
She is Member of the Board of Trustees of the Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study, served as the general secretary of the International Federation of Associations of Classical Studies (FIEC), board member of the Schweizerische Vereinigung für Altertumswissenschaft / Association Suisse pour l'Étude de l'Antiquité ( SVAW/ASEA)[7] and board member of the Schweizerische Patristische Arbeitsgemeinschaft / Groupe suisse d'études patristiques (GSEP) and one of the general editors of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Oxford 2012–2015).
Huebner leads several projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), 1) the edition of the Basel papyrus collection (2015–2018), Egypt at the transition from the Byzantine to early Arab world, 6th to 8th centuries (2016–2019).