Meet Our Faculty
Dr. Brian Morsony
Program Coordinator
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. Susan Mokhtari
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
Email: lzhang@csustan.edu
Phone: 209-667-3553
Office: N168
Condensed Matter Experiments, Nanomaterials
Ph.D., Shandong Univ. (‘96)
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
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
Dr. Daniel Birmingham
Email:dbirmingham@csustan.edu
Office: N167
Phone: TBA
Lecturer in Physics
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
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
Condensed Matter Physics
email: rzhang@csustan.edu
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
Biophysics and Biomechanics
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1977
Updated: October 11, 2024