ESCAPE - The European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle Physics ESFRI Research Infrastructures has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 824064.
Kay is senior researcher at the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP) at the University of Erlangen, Germany (FAU) and the general manager there. His research is in the field of astroparticle physics spanning the high-energy physics and astrophysics communities. In addition, he has a long history in software development, coordination and maintenance as the computing and software coordinator for the KM3NeT neutrino experiment, an ESFRI.
Kay was a member of the EOSC Architecture Working Group and is of the EOSC Association task force Infrastructure for Quality Reaserch Software, primarily in regards to his work within the EOSC cluster project ESCAPE - where he coordinates the work package on an open science software and service repository (OSSR). OSSR is a sustainable open-access repository to share scientific software and services to the science community and enable open science. It will house astro-particle-physics-related scientific software and services for data processing and analysis, as well as test data sets, user-support documentation, tutorials, presentations and training activities.