Jean-Pierre Sauvage(French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃pjɛʁsovaʒ]; born 21 October 1944) is a Frenchcoordination chemistworking atStrasbourg University. He graduated from the National School of Chemistry of Strasbourg (now known asECPM Strasbourg), in 1967.He has specialized insupramolecular chemistryfor which he has been awarded the 2016Nobel Prize in Chemistryalong withSir J. Fraser StoddartandBernard L. Feringa. Sauvage was born in Paris in 1944,and earned hisPhDdegree from theUniversité Louis-Pasteurunder the supervision ofJean-Marie Lehn, himself a 1987 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. During his doctoral work, he contributed to the first syntheses of thecryptandligands.After postdoctoral research withMalcolm L. H. Green, he returned toStrasbourg, where he is now emeritus professor. Sauvage's scientific work has focused on creating molecules that mimic the functions of machines by changing their conformation in response to an external signal. Fields: coordination chemistry, supramolecular chemistry Education: ECPM Strasbourg