Complex sentence: Balthassar Jozef Paul "Bas" van Bavel (born 24 June 1964) is a Dutch historian, he holds the chair of Transitions of Economy and Society at Utrecht University since 2011, and has been professor of Economic and Social History since 2007.
Split into simpler sentences: Balthassar Jozef Paul "Bas" van Bavel (born 24 June 1964) is a Dutch historian. He holds the chair of Transitions of Economy and Society at Utrecht University since 2011, and has been professor of Economic and Social History since 2007.