Anna Bezryadina

California State University, Northridge

Anna Bezryadina, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), where she has been a faculty member since 2018. Her research focuses on optical trapping and manipulation, nonlinear optics in biological samples, optically controlled bacterial biofilms, and optical studies of microplastic and nanoplastic effects on biosystems. She earned her bachelor’s in physics from San Francisco State University (SFSU) and her doctorate in physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) in 2012.