“We Take Apart the very First Instants of Destruction and Use Them
to Make the World a Safer Place.”

- Professor K.T. Ramesh, Director of the Johns Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute

HEMI News

Two HEMI Fellows Lead Organizing Committee for 10th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling

We are pleased to announce that HEMI Fellows Jaafar El- Awady (Associate Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering) and Somnath Ghosh...

HEMI Receives Funding from National Endowment of the Arts – Marking a Milestone for the Whiting School of Engineering

We are pleased to announce that the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI) has been awarded an Art Works grant from...

2019 HEMI Seed Grant Application Period Now Open

The Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute is pleased to announce that the application period for the 2019 HEMI Seed Grant Program...

Events

HEMI Seminar: Suzanne Ali (LLNL)

Friday, February 22 | 3:30pm

Special Exhibition: Amy Wetsch

Saturday, February 23 | 5:00pm

Special HEMI Seminar: David Stepp (ARO)

Wednesday, February 27 | 10:00am

Student Spotlight

HEMI Fellows

Project Spotlight

MICA Photography professor Jay Gould served as the inaugural HEMI/MICA Artist in Residence. Prof. Gould worked with HEMI faculty to create a series of photos to capture the complex work of HEMI materials scientists.

The impact energy in an asteroid 1km in diameter can be equal to 30 billion Hiroshima atom bombs.

HEMI cuts across three divisions within Johns Hopkins University: the Whiting School of Engineering, the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, and the Applied Physics Laboratory.

11 universities partner with Johns Hopkins to create the Institute.

HEMI is made possible by collaborations between
Johns Hopkins University and the following organizations:

Army Educational Outreach Program California Institute of Technology Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (UK) Defense Threat Reduction Agency Drexel University Goddard Space Flight Center Ernst Mach Institut (Germany) ETH Zurich HEMI Corporate Partners Imperial College of London Institute of Shock Physics (UK) Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory - Planetary Impact Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lehigh University Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow Maryland Advanced Research Computing Center Maryland Institute College of Art Missile Defense Agency Morgan State University NASA National Institutes of Health New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology North Carolina A&T State University Protection Engineering Consultants Purdue University Rutgers University Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute

Southwest Research Institute Texas A&M University University of California, Santa Barbara University of Delaware University of Houston University of North Carolina at Charlotte University of Texas at San Antonio US Army Aberdeen Test Center US Army Research Laboratory United States Advanced Ceramics Association Washington State University Washington University in St. Louis Wilmer Eye Institute

“We Take Apart the very First Instants of Destruction and Use Themto Make the World a Safer Place.”