Yin joins us and will further strenghten one of our research foci on lacustrine paleoseismology. He has been awarded a FWF-Lise Meitner Fellowship for 2 years and will be working on the FWF-Project (M-02817) Developing a 220 kyr-long continuous earthquake record investigating the fascinating Dead Sea sedimentary archive recoverd by the Dead Sea Deap Drilling ICDP-project