Summary
- Experienced seismologist in multiple fields, including waveform and data analysis, body- and surface-wave tomography, statistical seismology, and earthquake cycle modeling.
- PhD thesis focus on connecting seismic sequences with physical observation and numerical models of earthquake ruptures.
- Demonstrated capabilities in collaborating and communicating with observational seismologist, simulation scientists and statisticians in and across institutes.
Education and career
Dr. Sc. in Earth Sciences
- ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
- March 2016 - May 2022
M. Sc. in Geosciences
- National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- August 2006 - January 2009
B. S. in earth sciences
- National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- September 2002 - June 2006
Work Experience
Postdoc fellow at MIT EAPS
May 2023 - present
Research assistant at Academia Sinica
September 2010 - January 2016
- Research assistant with Dr. Frédéric Deschamps working on anisotropy tomography of the North Island, New Zealand and Eastern United States. Duties include dispersion curve fitting, inversion and manuscript writing.
- Data analyst at Broadband Array in Taiwan for Seismology (BATS). Duties include routine centroid moment tensor inversion for local earthquakes, station quality control, and metadata maintainance for permanant and temporary arrays.
- Supporting field experiments and institute outreach activities.
Researcher at SinoTech Engineering Consultants Inc.
August 2009 - August 2010
- Report on landslide potentials in Nantou County.
- Report on Shihmen Reservoir health and impact of landslides within the catchment.
- Supporting various projects after the Typhoon Morakot, including satellite image processing and production of evacuation maps.
Publications
The role of three-dimensional fault interactions in creating complex seismic sequences and power-law magnitude distributions
- Earth and Space Science Open Archive (Preprint), 2022
- Yifan Yin, Percy Galvez, Elías R. Heimisson, and Stefan Wiemer.
Seismicity Rate Change as a Tool to Investigate Delayed and Remote Triggering of the 2010–2011 Canterbury Earthquake Sequence, New Zealand
- Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2021
- Yifan Yin, Stefan Wiemer, Edi Kissling, Federica Lanza, Antonio P. Rinaldi, Matthew Gerstenberger, and Bill Fry
Outreach
- EGU Seismology blog post about the 2022 Chi-Shang earthquakes
- Radio interview about the 2024 Hualien earthquake
Extracurricular activities
Vice president of department student association
Department of Earth Sciences, National Central University
- Main organizer of Earth Science Week, a week of activities introducing and celebrating the department.
- Supporting association activities around the year.
Organizers and staff of the NCU earth science summer camp
National Central University
- The earth science summer camp is a week-long camp designed for high-school students to showcase the research and campus of the NCU college of earth sciences. The camps are organized by the college students within the departments.
- Group leader of the science program
- Group member of design, media and props
- Group member of activities
Member and guide of the NCU Hiking club
- Member of the club and continued participation after graduation,
- Experiences in guiding and sport climbing.
- My best lead ascent is “Missing Snow” 6b+ in Tonsai, Krabi.