Complex sentence: He and a team of computational scientists joined Chapman University in the fall of 2008, where he was the Founding Dean of the Schmid College of Science and Technology serving as dean from 2009--2012.
Split into simpler sentences: He and a team of computational scientists joined Chapman University in the fall of 2008. He is the Founding Dean of the Schmid College of Science and Technology serving as dean from 2009--2012.