PhD Forum
The ETS 2026 Ph.D. Forum aims at boosting the exchange of ideas, experiences, and perspective of young Ph.D. students, whose research interests are related to the broad areas of electronic-based circuit and system testing, reliability, security, and validation. During a dedicated poster session, the fresh Ph.D. students will have the opportunity to discuss their ongoing research work with very well-known specialists and world-leading experts in their field of research both from academia and industry. This offers an excellent opportunity to the Ph.D. students to receive valuable feedback while gaining exposure in the job market. Furthermore, the PhD forum also provides a great chance for industry experts to meet junior researchers, giving an avenue for incorporating the latest research developments into their companies.
Eligibility
The PhD forum is dedicated to young students in their first years of the PhD academic path working on ETS related topics. The forum will be organized as a special poster session in an attractive time slot. Interested PhD students are invited to submit extended abstracts of 2 pages.
Guidelines for authors
By submitting a contribution, the authors agree to register and present at ETS 2026 in case of acceptance.
Interested PhD students are invited to submit electronically a single PDF file consisting of:
- A cover letter of 1 page filled with the PhD information given in the template.
- An extended abstract of 2 pages (Conference paper style with a minimum font size of 10pt including tables) prepared based on the following guidelines:
- Motivation & problems that will be addressed in the PhD work (1 page):
Describe and motivate the problem addressed in your PhD work:- What are the main problems addressed? How urgent are these problems?
- What has been done already w.r.t. these problems and what is still missing?
- Scientific and Technological Excellence of the work (½ page):
- What are the contributions you expect from your work?
- Focus on the methodology, expected results, novelty, and possible multidisciplinary aspects
- Expected Impact (½ page):
Describe what impact your work is expected to have either in the short term or in the long term:- Will it strengthen industrial competitiveness, growth and sustainability? Will it solve a bottleneck in today’s industry?
- Will your work establish an essential basis for a new line of scientific and/or technological research and its future uses, not currently anticipated?
- Motivation & problems that will be addressed in the PhD work (1 page):
Key Dates
Submission
Deadline: 15 December 2025Notification of acceptance
Deadline: 12 January 2026Camera-ready manuscript
Deadline: 20 February 2026Submission Website
Click here to submit your paper. Only electronic submission of PDF files via the paper submission page are accepted.
Publications
Accepted contributions become part of the Informal Digest of the European Test Week 2026. The Informal Digest will be made available to all ETS attendees in electronic format. Hence, a later, more complete publication of the work in another conference or journal will still be possible.
PhD Forum Award
The PhD forum selection committee will review all the presented papers checking the technical content of the paper and the presentation capacity of the candidates, and select the Best PhD forum paper. The PhD Forum Award will be announced during the ETS’26 closing session. The best paper of the PhD Forum will be allowed two pages in the official conference proceedings.
Contact Information
PhD Forum Chairs
- Bastien Deveautour, Nantes Université, Nantes (FR), bastien.deveautour@univ-nantes.fr
- Angeliki Kritikakou, University of Rennes (FR), angeliki.kritikakou@irisa.fr
ETS’26 Program Chairs
- Motta Taouil, Delft University of Technology, m.taouil@tudelft.nl
- George Lentaris, University of west Attica, glentaris@uniwa.gr