Bernard Lucas Feringa (Bernard Lucas Feringa), a Dutch national and winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was born in the Netherlands in May 1951. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands in 1978. He is currently the Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences at the University of Groningen. In 2004, he was elected as an honorary foreign academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 2006 as an academician of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, in 2010 as an academician of the European Academy of Sciences, and in 2019 as a foreign academician of the National Academy of Sciences.

His research fields mainly include molecular machines and organic asymmetric catalysis. He synthesized the world's first artificial molecular motor and achieved precise control of the rotation parameters of the molecular motor through structural engineering, and developed a series of intelligent molecular materials based on molecular motors, bringing the steam engine era into the molecular dimension. He constructed a fully synthetic nanomolecular car that can achieve precise guided movement on the gold surface, making the concept of macroscopic machines realized in the microscopic world, becoming a milestone in the history of the development of chemistry. At the same time, he introduced the concept of light switch into the fields of molecular information storage, liquid crystal materials, chiral control, and biomacromolecules, promoting the development of related interdisciplinary fields. He is also an outstanding contributor in the field of organic asymmetric catalysis. The dozens of asymmetric catalytic transformation systems he developed based on phosphoramides have been widely used by many research groups and have become the star molecule Feringa ligand. The method he developed for the conjugate addition of Grignard reagents to cyclic enones through copper catalysis has also been widely used in total synthesis.

Bernard Lucas Feringa maintains close ties with the Chinese scientific community and has long collaborated with Chinese scholars to carry out cutting-edge research. He and Academician Tian He jointly led the establishment of the Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, which is based on East China University of Science and Technology and serves the construction of the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center. The center aims to create a highland for basic research, talent cultivation, and international cooperation in precision chemistry and molecular engineering. He was employed by East China University of Science and Technology as an internationally renowned master visiting professor to form a research team, recruit and guide students, and conduct substantive scientific research in Shanghai. He has published several important results with the center as the corresponding unit, making significant contributions to China's influence in the fields of molecular machines and intelligent materials. He also actively participates in China's popular science and technology activities and has conducted face-to-face exchanges with young teachers, college students, and high school students across the country to discuss scientific life. In 2018, he was awarded the Shanghai Magnolia Memorial Award by the Shanghai Municipal Government.