Rate My Professor Seán Cadogan

Emeritus Professor Seán Cadogan, School of Science, UNSW Canberra, is a physicist whose research focuses on the magnetism and crystallography of materials containing rare-earth elements, nanocrystalline soft magnetic materials, and meteorites. His expertise includes neutron and x-ray diffraction, Mössbauer spectroscopy, magnetic structures in intermetallic compounds, rare-earth permanent magnets, nanocrystalline alloys, and meteorite characterization using Mössbauer spectroscopy. Cadogan earned his B.Sc. (Hons) from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (1975-1978), and Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (1979-1982).

Cadogan's distinguished career commenced as Chercheur Associé at CNRS, Nancy, France (1983), followed by Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (1984-1987), and National Research Fellow at CSIRO, Lindfield, NSW, Australia (1987-1989). He progressed from Lecturer to Professor in the School of Physics at UNSW Sydney (1989-2007). From 2007 to 2012, he held a Senior (Tier-1) Canada Research Chair at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. Returning to Australia, he served as Professor of Physics in the School of Science (formerly PEMS), UNSW Canberra (2012-2020), including as Deputy Head of School (Research) (2015-2019), before retiring in November 2020 as Emeritus Professor. His extensive publication record comprises 320 journal articles, 14 book chapters, 47 conference papers, and 1 conference proceedings (editor). Key publications include 'Effects of Lu-doping on the magnetic behaviour and ordering of (Ho1−xLux)2Fe2Si2C' (Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2024, with Susilo et al.); 'The magnetic structure and spin-reorientation of ErGa' (Acta Crystallographica Section B, 2024, with Ryan et al.); 'The Arpu Kuilpu meteorite: In‐depth characterization of an H5 chondrite delivered from a Jupiter Family Comet orbit' (Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 2024, with Anderson et al.); 'Metal dicarboxylates as anode materials for Li-ion batteries' (Materials Advances, 2023, with Teusner et al.); and 'Plateau-like magnetocaloric effect in layered intermetallic compounds activated by tripled magnetic cell' (Materials Today Physics, 2021, with Wang et al.). These contributions underscore his impact in condensed matter physics and materials science.