Complex sentence: He is known for his work in the areas of object-oriented databases, database systems, software engineering and e-Science and was the UK's first e-Science Envoy (2006-2011) and the Director of the e-Science Institute, University of Edinburgh.
Split into simpler sentences: He is known for his work in the areas of object-oriented databases, database systems, software engineering and e-Science. He was the UK's first e-Science Envoy (2006-2011) and the Director of the e-Science Institute, University of Edinburgh.