Dr. Augusto Di Gianfrancesco, graduated in Chemical Engineering (La Sapienza – Rome University 1982), is currently Materials and Technologies consultant and Chairman of European Creep Collaborative Committee (ECCC) since 2016. He was employed at the Centro Sviluppo Materiali (CSM), Rome, Italy (1983 – 2014). He holds Senior Metallurgist and Project Leader positions on “High Temperature Materials”. He was head of creep and metallography laboratories and responsible for R&D activities on steels and superalloys for high temperature applications in power generation plants. He was also member of Management Committee of EU Program COST 522-536, ECCC co-founder in 1991 and of the Italian Working Group on Creep Resistant Materials. In addition, he has been member of the International Board of the 5th, 6th & 7th EPRI International Conferences on Advances in Materials Technology for Fossil Power Plants, METAL2013-18, the 6th International Conference on Creep, Fatigue and Creep-Fatigue Interaction, and organizer/chairman of the ECCC Conferences held 2014 - 2017 - 2021 - 2023. He is author and/or co-author of more than 280 technical reports and more than 130 papers presented in national and international conferences and/or magazines.