“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

HEMI Postdoctoral Fellow Opening: Biomechanics of Traumatic Brain Injury

Postdoctoral Fellow Biomechanics of Traumatic Brain Injury A new postdoctoral fellow position is available within the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute...

2020 HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts Summer Project/Internship Application Period Now Open

We are pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2020 HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts Summer Project/Internship. The...

Announcing the HEMI/APL Seed Grant Opportunity

The Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI) and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) are pleased to announce our first...

Events

Application Deadline for 2020 HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts Summer Project/Internship

Monday, February 10 | 5:00pm

2020 HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts Program Artist in Residence Application Deadline

Friday, February 14 | 5:00pm

2019 Artist in Residence Chris Sloan Opening Reception

Friday, March 6 | 7:00pm

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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 CCDC Army Research Laboratory 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 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.”