Meet Our Faculty
![Susan Mokhtari](/sites/default/files/styles/media_265x265/public/2022-06/susan-mokhtari.jpg?itok=ahVW3wzY)
Dr. Susan Mokhtari
Department Chair
Email: smokhtari@csustan.edu
Phone: 209-664-6728
Office: N175
Theoretical Black Hole Physics and Topological Quantum Field Theory
Ph.D., Imperial College, 1986 on Supergravity and Supersymmetry
Postdoc: International Center For Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
![Dr. Liangmin (Leon) Zhang](/sites/default/files/styles/media_265x265/public/2022-06/leon-zhang.jpg?itok=VAjsWKYw)
Dr. Liangmin (Leon) Zhang
Email: lzhang@csustan.edu
Phone: 209-667-3553
Office: N168 & N165
Condensed Matter Experiments, Nanomaterials
Ph.D., Shandong Univ. (‘96)
![Dr. Brian Morsony](/sites/default/files/styles/media_265x265/public/2022-06/brian-morsony.png?itok=Bqyl2vn4)
Dr. Brian Morsony
Email: bmorsony@csustan.edu
Phone: 209-667-3535
Office: N174
Theoretical and Computational Astrophysics
Ph.D., Astrophysical and Planetary Science, UC, Boulder 2008
Postdoc: Univ. Wisconsin-Madison 2008, Univ. Maryland 2014-2018
![Dr. Wing To](/sites/default/files/styles/media_265x265/public/2022-06/wing-to.png?itok=O4He1j2I)
Dr. Wing To
Email: wto@csustan.edu
Phone: 209-664-6910
Office: N173
Experimental Particle Physics and Atmospheric Physics
Ph.D., Particle Physics from UC, Santa Barbara, 2006-2012
Postdoc: Experimental Dark Matter from Case Western Reserve Univ. 2012-2014
Postdoc: Experimental Dark Matter from Stanford Univ. 2014-2016
![jason](/sites/default/files/styles/media_265x265/public/2023-08/jason.png?itok=a1dyFQf0)
Dr. Jason Veatch
Email: jveatch@csustan.edu
Phone: 209-667-3467
Office: N172
Experimental Particle Physics
Ph.D., Particle Physics, University of Arizona 2015
Postdoc: University of Goettingen, Germany, 2015-2021
Postdoc: California State University, East Bay, 2022-2023
Lecturer
![physics](/sites/default/files/styles/media_265x265/public/2022-08/physics_1.jpg?itok=-isUaSiM)
Dr. Daniel Birmingham
Email:dbirmingham@csustan.edu
Office: N167
Phone: TBA
Lecturer in Physics
![Jeff](/sites/default/files/styles/media_265x265/public/2023-08/jeff.png?itok=ggiK-jdV)
Dr. Jeffrey Mirocha
Email: jmirocha@csustan.edu
Phone: 209-667-3466
Office: N176
Research: Atmospheric Sciences and Wind Energy
Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, 2000-2005
Staff Atmospheric Scientist: Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL), 2005-Current
![Ryan](/sites/default/files/styles/media_265x265/public/2022-08/ryanmuoio.png?itok=pNWybZ30)
Mr. Ryan Muoio
Email: rmuoio@csustan.edu
Phone: 209-667-3466
Office: N176
Research Field: Active Matter
Master's in the Science of Physics, CSU Fullerton, 2021
![Zaya Pourtarvirdi](/sites/default/files/styles/media_265x265/public/2022-06/zaya-pourtarvirdi.png?itok=nRpCWyc0)
Mr. Zaya Pourtarvirdi
Email: zpourtarvirdi@csustan.edu
Office: TBA
Phone: TBA
Lecturer in Physics, Thin-Film Physics, Optical Coatings, Semiconductor Lasers
Master of Science in Applied Physics, Fresno State University
Currently also Full-Time Instructor at Merced College
Emeritus Faculty
![Dr. Rose Zhang](/sites/default/files/styles/media_265x265/public/2022-06/rose-zhang.jpg?itok=T41kNPF3)
Dr. Rose Zhang
Condensed Matter Physics
email: rzhang@csustan.edu
![Dr. Ian Littlewood](/sites/default/files/styles/media_265x265/public/2022-06/ian-littlewood.png?itok=nRpD1_nL)
Dr. Ian Littlewood
Atomic Physics, Thermal Collisions, Gas Plasmas, Spectroscopy
Ph.D., University of Oxford, 1976
Postdoc: Molecular Spectroscopy, McMaster University, 1981
![Dr. Marvin Johnson](/sites/default/files/styles/media_265x265/public/2022-06/marvin-johnson.png?itok=y_pEL9D8)
Dr. Marvin Johnson
Biophysics and Biomechanics
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1977
Updated: February 22, 2024