07 March, 2013
Dr. Ulas Avsar has joined the CDI group at KAUST as a postdoctoral researcher. He defended his PhD thesis on 5 March, 2013 at the University of Gent in Belgium. The title of his Ph.D. thesis is "Lacustrine paleoseismic records from the North Anatolian Fault, Turkey". At KAUST he will study sediment cores from lakes in northern Iceland in search for evidence for pre-historic major earthquakes.