Velimir Radmilović was born in 1948 in Herceg Novi, Montenegro. He graduated from the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, in 1972. He got his MSc (1981) and PhD (1985) degree from the same faculty. Dr. Radmilovic got a position of an assistant professor in Physical Metallurgy from the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy in Belgrade in 1985, associate professor in 1991, and full professor in 1995. He has been teaching numerous undergraduate and graduate courses related to materials science and physical metallurgy such as: physical metallurgy, phase transformations, crystallography and crystal defects, X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, mechanical metallurgy, and heat treatment. He is the author or coauthor of more than 200 scientific papers published in peer review journals in the field of physical metallurgy, materials science, nanoscience and nanotechnology and numerous papers published in conference proceedings and presented at national and international conferences. His results were cited in the scientific literature more than 5000 times. As a visiting professor and a research fellow he worked at the Department of Materials Science, University of California at Berkeley, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he was a principal investigator until 2011. In 2012, he became a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

He has been a reviewer for numerous peer review journals such as Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, Materials Science and Engineering, Science, Nanotechnology, Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Diamond and Related Materials, Journal of Materials Science, Journal of Serbian Chemical Society, etc.