Faculty Expert Profile

Jaafar El-Awady, professor of mechanical engineering, is recognized for furthering the fundamental understanding of the underlying deformation mechanism in materials. A winner of a 2018 Johns Hopkins University Catalyst Award, he creates cutting-edge, multi-scale computational methods and experimental techniques necessary to develop next-generation materials for aerospace, naval, automotive, and energy applications.

As founder and director of the Johns Hopkins Computational and Experimental Materials Engineering Laboratory (CEMEL) and interim director of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI), El-Awady's expertise is primarily in the field of mechanics of materials for extreme environments.