Convened sessions

Recommendations

Proposers should try to meet one or more of the following criteria to increase the probability of the session being accepted:​

• Balance between European and non-European contributions​;
• Significant participation of industry, especially in application/industry oriented sessions;
• Sessions with a specific focus that is timely and relevant to the research community will be favourably considered. 
• Sessions with a regional focus are welcome, but a thematic coherence is encouraged, e.g.: “State of the art in mobile antenna research in continent/region X”. 
• Sessions focusing on an aspect of a relevant technology, such as: “Industrialisation aspects of metamaterial-based antennas” are also welcome, although please consider that a scientific/industry workshop may be a more appropriate forum.

Rules for proposers

Number of papers from conveners and their institutions

Convened sessions must be an open forum. To that aim, conveners should refrain from having too many papers from their own institutions. The rules below should be seen as providing absolute maxima, not targets:

5 paper sessions: At least 3 papers should come from institutions different from the conveners' institutions. A maximum of 1 paper from the same institution of each convener. Conveners may solicit only one "overview" paper.

10 paper sessions: At least 8 papers should come from institutions different from the conveners' institutions. A maximum of 1 paper from the same institution of each convener. Conveners may solicit two "overview" papers.

Overview papers

Overview papers may not necessarily contain new results, and their quality will mainly be evaluated based on the proper coverage of the topic (e.g. not only work from the author’s institution, but also that from the general scientific community). Such papers should be reserved for authors having the proper background and recognition to achieve an authoritative overview. It is stressed that this is a possibility but by no means an obligation. All remaining papers must present novel scientific content and are subject to a peer review process.  

In addition, the proposers must be aware that the session may be cancelled if the number of accepted papers is too low.​

When soliciting authors for the convened session, please avoid confusion with EuCAP “invited speakers”. In addition, convened speakers and conveners should be informed that they will need to register for the conference at the EuCAP 2026 website.​

Paper submission

All papers must be submitted no later than October 17, 2025 and should conform to the same specifications as regular papers. The authors cannot be changed after submission and in case of “no show” the paper will not be included in the IEEE-Xplore digital library. 

Selection criteria

The selection process of convened session proposals will be based on the following criteria:​

• Topic of the session, taking into account the scientific content, innovation, the topical character, and the level of expected audience interest​;
• Quality and/or potential overlap with respect to competing proposals;
• Experience and international recognition of the conveners and solicited authors​;

The selection criteria and other constraints may mean a proposal is rejected despite of its value and the reputation of the conveners. A 10-paper proposal may need to be changed into a 5-paper one in order to be accepted.

Review process

Convened session papers will strictly go through the same peer review process as the one implemented for regular papers.​

One of the conveners must act as a meta-reviewer for the papers related to their session and will be invited through EDAS (meta-reviewers go through the reviews received for the paper to ensure consistence and produce an overall recommendation to the Technical Programme Committee). The convener acting as the meta-reviewer must be specified in the proposal. In case this convener does not receive the EDAS invitation by November 1, 2025, please contact the Convened Session Chairs at cs@eucap2026.org

Please note that in order to ensure the same quality control as regular papers (including plagiarism and self-plagiarism), convened session papers will also be meta reviewed by another independent meta-reviewer.

List of Confirmed Convened Sessions

ID ​ ​Title ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Convenors 

2 ​ ​Advances on metasurfaces for wavefront manipulation ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​André de Lustrac and ​Shah Nawaz Burokur

3 ​ ​Advanced Beam Manipulation with Metamaterial, Lenses, and Phased Arrays  ​ Can Ding and Alessio Monti

​ ​for 6G Communication and Sensing

4 ​ ​Challenges in assessing human RF exposure to existing and emerging mobile  ​ ​Lisa Marie Schilling and Wout Joseph

​ ​radio technologies up to 6G

5 ​ ​Propagation for Smart Mobility Scenarios ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Ke Guan and Ibrahim Rashdan

6 ​ ​Advances in antennas for smart terminals for mobile and satellite  ​ ​ ​ ​Dawei Zhou and Steven Gao

​ ​communications ​and IOT

7 ​ Small Antennas: 20 Years of Innovation and the Road Ahead ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Fabien Ferrero and Marta Cabedo-Fabrés

8 ​ ​Advanced Quasi-Periodic Electromagnetic Structures for Metasurface,  ​ ​ ​Antonio Clemente and Enrica Martini

​ ​Transmitarray, and Reflectarray Applications

9 ​ ​Advances in OTA chambers, from reverberation chambers to hybrids ​ ​ ​Sander Bronckers and Nazanin Farid

10 ​ ​Recent Advances on Propagation Research and Its Impact on Localizations ​ ​Christian Gentner and Wei Wang

11 ​ ​Advances in Study and Design of 2-D Leaky-Wave Antennas ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Davide Comite and Paolo Baccarelli​

12 ​ ​Advances in Channel Sounding and Measurements for 6G: From cm-Wave  ​ ​Wei Fan and Diego Dupleich

​ ​to sub-THz

13 ​ ​Toward Sustainable IoT: Innovations in RF and Antenna Materials, Design,  ​ ​Chaoyun Song and Gholamhosein Moloudian 

​ ​and Fabrication

14 ​ ​Recent advances on theory and applications of characteristic modes in  ​ ​ ​Li-Ying Nie and Kurt Schab

​ ​antenna modelling and design

15 ​ ​Radio Wave Propagation Modeling and Measurement: Recent Advances and  ​ ​Xingqi Zhang and Xinyue Zhang

​ ​Applications

16 ​ ​Passive intermodulation in RF antennas and base stations ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Alex Schuchinsky and Mattias Gustafsson

17 ​ ​Advances in Multi-Antenna Channel Sounding and Modeling for 6G:  ​ ​ ​Zhiqiang Yuan and Fengchun Zhang

​ ​From Far-Field to Near-Field

18 ​ ​Advancements in Electromagnetic Field Exposure Research in 5G and Beyond ​Amina Fellan and Mario Pauli

19 ​ ​Antennas, components and sensors for life science applications of  ​ ​ ​Lorenzo Crocco and Matteo Bruno Lodi

​ ​electromagnetic technologies

21 ​ ​AMTA Session: Select Best Measurement Paper Candidates from AMTA Authors  ​Janet O'Neil and Olav Breinbjerg

​ ​at ​EuCAP - Updates in 2026 on Best Measurement Technique ​ ​

22 ​ ​Antennas and RF propagation modeling for implants and wearable sensors ​ ​Sema Dumanli and Kamran Sayrafian

23 ​ ​Metamaterials for future industrial applications ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Francisco Mesa and Zhongxia Simon He

24 ​ ​Analysis Methods and Emerging Applications of Novel 1D Periodic Structures ​ ​Eva Rajo-Iglesias and Guido Valerio

25 ​ ​Electromagnetic medical imaging: inversion algorithms and novel data  ​ ​ ​Rosa Scapaticci and Martina Teresa Bevacqua

​ ​processing strategies

26 ​ ​Physics-compliant modeling and prototyping of reconfigurable metasurfaces ​ ​Philipp del Hougne and Marco Di Renzo

27 ​ ​Novel Antenna Measurement Techniques and Data Processing for  ​ ​ ​ ​Janet O'Neil and Dennis Lewis

​ ​Electromagnetic Applications

28 ​ ​Quantum Electromagnetics - From Photonics to Quantum Computing ​ ​ ​Gabriele Gradoni and Amir Boag

29 ​ ​Wireless and Wave-Based Technologies for Harsh and Complex Environments ​Sergi Abadal and Hamidreza Taghvaee

30 ​ ​New progress in AI-driven antenna design ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Bo Liu and Nelson Fonseca

31 ​ ​Antennas and Arrays for Radio Astronomy ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​David Prinsloo and Sean Hum 

32 ​ ​Electromagnetic Information Theory ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Mats Gustafsson and Gabriele Gradoni ​ ​

33 ​ ​Propagation data and modeling for NGSO-based systems ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Lorenzo Luini and Marianna Biscarini

34 ​ ​From Complex Simulations to Functional Antennas: Solving Challenges for  ​ ​Min Zhou and Giovanni Toso

​ ​Space Applications

36 ​ ​EuMA session: Active Antennas for Sensing and Communication ​ ​ ​ ​Alessandra Costanzo and Crhistian Fager

37 ​ ​Advances in Dynamic Metasurface Antennas/Reconfigurable Holographic  ​ ​Abdul Jabbar and Aakash Bansal

​ ​Surfaces for Next-Generation Wireless Applications: Design, devices and 

​ ​Applications

39 ​ Fundamental challenges and novel methodologies in the next-generation  ​ ​Francesca Vipiana and Zhen Peng

​ ​computational electromagnetics

40 ​ ​Approaches for Electromagnetic Dosimetry and Human Body Interaction in  ​ ​Kemal Sumser and Marta Cavagnaro

​ ​Life Sciences

42 ​ ​​AMTA Post Processing Techniques in Antenna Measurements ​ ​ ​ ​Francesco Saccardi and Josh Gordon

43 ​ ​Characterisation of biological tissues and tissue mimicking materials for  ​ ​Daniela Marques Godinho and Julian Bonello

​ ​electromagnetic medical applications

44 ​ ​Pre-Clinical and Clinical Microwave Devices - from Diagnosis to Treatment ​ ​Raquel Cruz Conceição and Jorge A. Tobón Vásquez

45 ​ ​Scattering in 6G and Integrated Communications and Sensing ​ ​ ​ ​Diego Andres Dupleich and Thomas Dallmann​

46 ​ ​Theory and Applications of Antennas for Biomedical Devices ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Denys Nikolayev and Mingxiang Gao

47 ​ ​Novel designs and applications of conformal metasurfaces and antennas ​ ​Zvonimir Sipus and Marcos V. T. Heckler

49 ​ ​Antenna Design for IoT applications: Modeling, Optimization, and  ​ ​ ​ ​Jaume Anguera and Miloslav Capek

​ ​Simulation Workflows ​ ​ ​

51 ​ ​AMTA Convened Session: New Measurement Methods for Reverberation  ​ ​Anouk Hubrechsen and Dennis Lewis

​ ​Chambers

52 ​ ​AMTA Convened Session - Emerging Measurement Techniques for  ​ ​ ​Tian Hong Loh and Janet O’Neil

​ ​5G and Beyond – 10th Anniversary Session

53 ​ ​Advanced Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Techniques in Wireless Sensing  ​ ​Julien Sarrazin and José Luis Gómez Tornero

​ ​and Communication

54 ​ ​Recent Progress in Channel Modeling and Its Applications for mmWave  ​ ​ ​Pekka Kyösti and Yejian Lyu

​ ​and THz Bands

55 ​ ​Wireless Power Transfer System and the Roles of Antennas & Propagation ​ ​Nuno Borges Carvalho and Tadashi Takano

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