“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 Research Faculty Position Available: Emerging Areas of Mechanics, Materials, and Structures

RESEARCH FACULTY POSITION Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute Johns Hopkins University Emerging Areas of Mechanics, Materials, and Structures The Hopkins Extreme...

Prof. Susanna Thon from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Joins HEMI

Please join us in welcoming the newest HEMI Fellow, Prof. Susanna Thon! Prof. Thon is an assistant professor with the...

HEMI Graduate Student Accepts President Harry S. Truman Fellowship in National Security Science and Engineering with Sandia National Laboratories

Congratulations to PhD candidate Thomas O’Connor for his acceptance of the President Harry S. Truman Fellowship in National Security Science...

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MEDE: Ceramics CMRG Summer Review

Monday, July 16 | 8:00am

MEDE Science Advisory Board

Wednesday, October 10 | 12:00am

CMEDE Fall Meeting

Wednesday, October 10 | 8:00am

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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 Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (UK) Defense Threat Reduction Agency Drexel University Goddard Space Flight Center Ernst Mach Institut (Germany) 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 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 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.”