Complex sentence: He was made Professor of Physics in 1984, and in 2001 was appointed Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington and in 2002 helped establish the multi-university MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology as founding director.
Split into simpler sentences: He was made Professor of Physics in 1984, and in 2001 was appointed Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington. In 2002 helped establish the multi-university MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology as founding director.