Dr. Catherine Johnson is an Associate Professor of Mining and Explosives Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. She joined the Missouri S&T faculty in January 2015 as an assistant professor of mining and explosives engineering. She was promoted to associate professor of mining and explosives engineering and granted tenure in September 2021.

Dr. Johnson earned her Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering in Mining and Quarry Engineering at the University of Leeds, UK in 2012. Her masters research focused on the origins of air overpressure from quarry blasting. She completed her Doctoral degree entitled Fragmentation Analysis in the Dynamic Stress Wave Collision Regions in Bench Blasting at the University of Kentucky in December of 2014. Dr. Johnson's research projects are related to dust explosions, shockwave collision in condensed matter, traumatic brain injury and detonation synthesis of nanomaterials. Her research interests include explosive propagation in air, shock physics, fragmentation prediction, environmental considerations of blasting, and the advancement of blasting practices and technologies.

Mining Engineering Department