Doctor of Chemical Sciences and Director of the Petre Melikishvili Institute of Physical and Organic Chemistry, TSU, he is a corresponding member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. In 2013 he was awarded the Order of Honor, and is an official expert for the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources and for international financial organizations (World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development).  He is a member of the Ecology Commission under the Academic Council of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences; Chairman of the Ecology Commission at the Department of Chemical Technologies. Tsitsishvili is the editor of the chemical part of a journal Matsne published by the Georgian National Academy of Sciences. He is a co-author of a four-language (Russian-Georgian-English-German) chemical dictionary.  He was Professor at the TSU Department of Physical Chemistry and is a member of the scientific-attestation council granting scientific degrees in chemical sciences.