“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 Fellow Thomas Gernay Provides Insight Regarding the Notre Dame Cathedral Fire

While France begins to rebuild after the recent devastating fire at the famed Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, HEMI Fellow...

HEMI Fellow Muyinatu Bell to Receive Maryland Outstanding Young Engineer Award

HEMI Fellow Muyinatu Bell, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Biomedical...

2019 Mach Conference Showcases Fundamental Research for Materials and Structures in Extreme Environments

The 2019 Mach Conference, held last week in Annapolis, MD, brought together representatives from academia, government and industry to share...

Events

HEMI Seminar: Minta Akin (LLNL)

Friday, April 26 | 3:30pm

HEMI Seminar: Susanna Thon (JHU)

Friday, May 3 | 3:30pm

MEDE Science Advisory Board

Wednesday, October 16 | 12:00am

Student Spotlight

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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 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.”