Each year Space@Hopkins awards seed grants to enable Johns Hopkins researchers to test and develop new ideas that enhance their ability to obtain external funding. For 2023 Space@Hopkins will fund four teams representing the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences (KSAS), and the Whiting School of Engineering (WSE).
The four projects awarded new seed grants are:
Dielectric Metamaterial Actuators as Highly Efficient and Endurable Actuators in Space Applications
- PI: Jochen Mueller (WSE: Civil & Systems Engineering).
Machine Learning-Accelerated Discovery of New High-Entropy Shape Memory Alloys for Space Actuation
- PI: Paulette Clancy (WSE: Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
- Co-I: Eddie Gienger (APL: Research and Exploratory Development)
Waste-Heat Powered Hydrogen Production on Mars
- PI: Corey Oses (WSE: Materials Science & Engineering)
- Co-Is: Kenneth A. Kane (APL: Research and Exploratory Development) and Avi G. Bregman (APL: Research and Exploratory Development)
Health Effects of Space Travel: Circadian Rhythm Disruptions From Irregular Sleep and Light/Dark Patterns
- PI: Nichole Broderick (KSAS: Biology)
Since 2016 Space@Hopkins has served as an umbrella organization to connect civilian space research across all Johns Hopkins divisions. All Space@Hopkins seed grants provide undergraduate research opportunities as a program requirement.
Applications for the next round of Space@Hopkins seed grants will open during the spring 2024 semester. For additional information, contact the Space@Hopkins Space Fellow, Yuzo Ishikawa, at spacestudies@jhu.edu.
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