Mohsen Janatpour
Mohsen Janatpour is a math, physics, and astronomy professor at the College of San
Mateo. He is also the coordinator of CSM’s Astronomy Program. He has taught at the
college for 131 consecutive semesters. During this period, he taught astronomy, aeronautics,
chemistry, drafting, mathematics, and physics courses. Prior to that, he worked as
a quality assurance engineer and mathematician at Coors and Varian Associates. During
his employment at Varian, he was involved with the development interpolator for mapping
the moon’s surface from the data gathered by Apollo 11. From 1995 to the present,
as an artist and philosopher, Mohsen has lectured on the nature of mental imagery
and human perception. (See mohsensart.com for samples of his artwork.) Cognella Textbook Publishing Company has published his
book on the same subject matter. He received his MS degree in mathematics from the
San Jose State University in 1969, returned to the same institution, and earned a
second MS degree in physics ten years later. He was employed by CSM in 1979 while
a Ph.D. candidate in biophysics at the University of California in Berkeley.
