Updating note property (i.e. Creation Date) from a field in YAML metadata

I imported a few pandoc files into joplin (markdown). Most of them have a field ‘Publication Date` in yaml metadata. Example

--
author: Dilawar 
publication date: 2020 Apr 09
tags: 
   - a 
   - b
--- 

The imported note inside Joplin however has today’s date as creation date which is expected. Can I somehow sync the publication date in yaml metadata to creation date inside this note’s properties (and optionally keep them in sync!)?