Complex sentence: Professor Roland Levinsky (October 16,1943--January 1,2007) was an academic specialising in biomedicine best known in his later years as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom.
Split into simpler sentences: Professor Roland Levinsky (October 16,1943--January 1,2007) was an academic researcher in biomedicine and a university senior manager. His last post, which he held at the time of his death, was as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom.