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Ryan Hurley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, with secondary appointments in the Departments of Civil and Systems Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. He serves as the Deputy Director of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI) and as the Associate Program Director for the Materials Science Extreme Environments University Research Alliance (MSEE URA). Dr. Hurley focuses on the development of novel experiments and numerical models to study the mechanical behavior and failure mechanisms of granular materials, rocks, concrete, and lattice materials. He conducts significant research using synchrotron X-ray facilities to understand deformation mechanisms at small length and time scales. His research has been published in prestigious journals such as the Journal of the Physics of Mechanics and Solids and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Active in professional societies, he is a member of the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) and the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). Dr. Hurley has received several awards for his work, including the NSF CAREER Award in 2020 and the JHU Catalyst Award in 2023. He joined the Whiting School of Engineering faculty in 2018 after earning his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 2015 and completing postdoctoral research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Johns Hopkins University • Baltimore, MD
Faculty member engaged in teaching and research in Mechanical Engineering.
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