Zhitong Sui used to be a professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Materials and Metallurgy of Northeastern University; he is an academic member of the State Key Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a visiting professor of several colleges and universities, the vice chairman of the Metallurgical Physical Chemistry Society of the Chinese Society of Metals, the deputy director of the Academic Committee of Physical Chemistry of Materials, and a review member of the mining and metallurgy discipline of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He enjoys special allowances from the State Council. He is a member of the American Society for Minerals, Metals, and Materials (TMS).