John C. Malone Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Jeremy D. Brown has been selected to receive a 2025 Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award, a prestigious recognition reflecting his accomplishments to date, creativity and originality, and academic impact. Brown is among 20 promising early-career faculty members chosen from across seven academic divisions of the Johns Hopkins University.

The 2025 honorees will each receive a $100,000 grant to advance their research. Awardees will also be provided mentoring and professional development opportunities aimed at strengthening connections across the early-career faculty community.

The Catalyst Awards program was launched in early 2015 in tandem with the Discovery Awards program for interdivisional collaborations. Together they represent a $85 million university commitment to faculty-led research by university leadership along with the deans and directors of JHU’s divisions.

Brown’s research focuses on the interface between humans and robots with a specific focus on medical applications and haptic feedback. In particular, he seeks to develop novel haptic interfaces to upper-limb prosthetics, minimally-invasive surgical robotics, and rehabilitation robots. His research sits at the intersection of engineering, biomechatronics, medicine, and psychophysics, and uses methods from human perception, motor control, neurophysiology, and biomechanics.

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