Director of Infrastructure & Operations

Dr. Rolf Borner has headed the Infrastructure & Operations Directorate in the Rectorate since August 2021. The Directorate is responsible for ensuring the university's infrastructure and developing it in line with its needs.

Dr. Rolf Borner, born in Olten in 1973, studied building engineering at the ETH Zurich, where he obtained his doctorate in 2004 in the field of building management. From 2005, he worked in the real estate division of the Finance Department of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, and since July 2015 he was Managing Director of Immobilien Basel-Stadt. In February 2019, the Basel government appointed him as co-head of the Real Estate Board of the University of Basel. In this role, he was significantly involved in the development of the new agreement on real estate at the University of Basel.