Paul Ragogna is the Associate Dean of Science (Research) and Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Western University. Ragogna is a main group synthetic chemist, with the aim of discovering and applying novel main group element-containing materials, surface modification, and preparing thin films using atomic layer deposition ALD and molecular layer deposition (MLD). He maintains numerous industrial and academic partnerships. He holds a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Dalhousie University under the supervision of Prof. N. Burford and completed Postdoctoral studies at the University of Toronto with Prof. Ian Manners.