Biographie
Jean-Pierre Sauvage conducted his research at the CNRS from 1971 till 2014 at the University of Strasbourg, where is now Professeur Emérite. He defended his thesis in 1971, supervised by Jean-Marie Lehn, himself Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987. Joining the CNRS in 1971, he made his postdoc in Oxford from 1973 till 1974, became Directeur de Recherche in 1979, obtaining the silver medal of CNRS in 1988. Jean-Pierre Sauvage works in the Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires in Strasbourg.