Greg Hilmas joined the Department of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) at Missouri S&T in 1998 as an Assistant Professor. He was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 2004, promoted to Professor in 2007, and promoted to Curators' Distinguished Professor in 2012. He received his BS in MSE from the University of Minnesota in 1986, his MS in Ceramic Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1989, and his PhD in MSE from the University of Michigan in 1993. Prior to joining Missouri S&T in 1998, he worked at Advanced Ceramics Research, Inc., in Tucson, AZ. His research expertise lies in the area of processing-microstructure-property relationships in structural ceramics, and he has been awarded >$20M in research contracts from more than 20 different funding agencies/companies over the past 24 years. Greg is a member and Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS). He has served for ACerS as Chair of the sub-committee on the Orton Memorial Lecture and Award, Member of the Jeppson Award Committee, Past President of the Ceramic Educational Council, and Past President of the Keramos national Board of Directors. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 journal and proceedings papers, holds eleven U.S. patents, and has three patents pending for the development of novel ceramic and composite architectures. He received an R&D100 Award in 2002 for the development of diamond/metal co-extruded composites for the petroleum drilling industry. He has also received fourteen campus-wide Outstanding Teaching Awards from Missouri S&T, three Sustained Excellence in Teaching Awards from Missouri S&T, and ten consecutive Faculty Excellence Awards from Missouri S&T.

Greg Hilmas also performs consulting for industry, universities, etc., in the areas of thermal and mechanical properties of ceramics and composites; ceramic processing; fibrous monolith processing; structural ceramics; boride, carbide, and nitride ceramics; ultra-high temperature ceramics.