The 6thNational Ph.D. Candidates Academic Conference was held in SOE from Oct 16th to 18th, 2012. The conference was hosted by Tsinghua University, State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, and Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences. It aims to establish a platform for academic communication among Ph.D. students from all over the nation.

Prof. He Kebin, Executive Vice Dean of the Graduate School of Tsinghua University, Prof. Huang Xia, Director of the State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, and Prof. Yu Gang, Dean of SOE, attended the opening ceremony.

The conference received over 140 papers out of more than 200 papers from 45 universities and research institutes in China, including Tsinghua University, Harbin Institute of Technology and Fudan University, etc. In the 3-day conference, the authors presented their research papers  in areas of new theories, methodology and technology in environmental science and engineering, environmental microbiology, new material and energy, climate change and circular economy.