His interests focus on the kinetic physics of space plasmas, with applications to magnetic reconnection and turbulence. He uses massively parallel kinetic simulations to study this physics, and is also developing novel multiscale methods to attack these problems. Dr. Shay received the NSF Faculty Career award in 2007, the Francis Alison Society Young Scholars Award in 2008, is the author of over 60 refereed publications and has given 40 invited seminars. Dr. Shay received his PhD in 1998 from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he also performed his post-doctoral work before joining the University of Delaware in 2005.