Christina Kay

Dr. Christina Kay is a heliophysicist in the Solar and Space Physics Group within APL’s Space Exploration Sector. She is highly involved with the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and Parker Solar Probe teams with a focus on the visualization and analysis of white-light observations of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). She is the lead developer of the Open Solar Physics Rapid Ensemble Information (OSPREI) model for Sun-to-Earth CME simulations, a strategically simplified model with automatic visualizations intended for CME space weather predictions. She also has extensive experience in the analysis of CME arrival-time predictions and generation of meta-catalogs consolidating the existing resources from the literature. She is interested in the responsible use of artificial intelligence/machine learning techniques for applied scientific research.

Dr. Kay has been the lead author of 21 peer-reviewed articles and frequently presents at domestic and international conferences, including many invited and/or scene-setting talks. She is the lead of the “Magnetic Profiles of Interplanetary CMEs” International Space Weather Action Team (ISWAT) and is involved in several International Space Science Institute (ISSI) teams. In 2018, she was awarded the Chizhevsky Medal for early-career research at the European Space Weather Week.