Manling Sui is a Chair Professor and the Director of Academic Committee of Faculty of Materials and Manufacturing at Beijing University of Technology (BJUT). She received her Ph.D. in 1991 from Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Science, and successively worked at Northeastern University (China), University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), and Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Then she joined BJUT as a Chair Professor of Cheung Kong Scholars Programme in 2009. Her research is focused on in situ electron microscopy for structure and property relationship in advanced materials, mechanisms for the performance and structure evolution of energy and catalytic materials in the applied fields (heat, electricity, light, etc.) and environment (liquid and gas), and low dose electron microscopy for the study of electron beam sensitive materials. She has published more than 200 papers in the peer-reviewed journals, including Science, Nature Materials, Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials, ASC Nano, Nano Letters, Acta Materialia etc. Her papers have been cited more than 10000 times by SCI papers.