The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software Association has established a Doctoral Dissertation Award to promote and recognize outstanding dissertations in the research areas covered by the four main ETAPS conferences (ESOP, FASE, FoSSaCS, and TACAS).

Doctoral dissertations are evaluated with respect to originality, relevance, and impact to the field, as well as the degree of reproducibility (where this applies). The award winner will receive a monetary prize and will be recognized at the ETAPS Banquet.

Eligibility

Eligible for the award is any PhD student whose doctoral dissertation includes a publication at ETAPS or its satellite event and who completed their doctoral degree in the period from January 1st, 2024 to December 31st, 2024. 

Submission Guidelines

Award candidates should be nominated by their supervisor. Members of the Award Committee are not allowed to nominate their own PhD students for the award.

Nominations consist of a single PDF file (extension .pdf) containing: 

• name and email address of the candidate
• a short curriculum vitae of the candidate
• name and email address of the supervisor
• an endorsement letter from the supervisor
• the final version of the doctoral dissertation
• institution and department that has awarded the doctorate
• a document certifying that the doctoral degree was successfully completed within the eligibility period
• a report from at least one examiner of the dissertation who is not affiliated with the candidate's institution
• (optional) extra endorsement letters 

All documents must be written in English. Nominations are welcome regardless of whether results that are part of the dissertation have been published at ETAPS.

Nominations should be submitted via EasyChair:

    https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=etapsdda2025

The deadline for nominations is January 15th, 2025.

Award Committee

• Caterina Urban (chair)
• Nobuko Yoshida (representing ESOP)
• Reiko Heckel (representing FASE)
• TBA (representing FoSSaCS)
• TBA (representing TACAS)
• Marieke Huisman
• Yotam Feldman

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to the chair of the award committee, Caterina Urban <caterina.urban@inria.fr>.