John M. (Sean) Cadogan is Professor of Physics at the University of New South Wales and a former Canada Research Chair in Advanced Materials.
Cadogan also uses nuclear techniques to explore "soft-magnetic" materials based on iron and other elements, which are found in such applications as the transformer cores used by the electrical power industry.
Cadogan became a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at the University of Manitoba in July, 2007.
He began his formal training in his homeland of Australia, earning his PhD in 1983 from the University of New South Wales.
He is a regular referee of research papers submitted for publication to ten international scientific journals and he has served as an Associate Editor for a special 2-volume edition of the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.