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Dr. Ágnes Mócsy is a Hungarian-American physicist filmmaker, and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Pratt Institute. Ágnes is also Adjunct Professor at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, where they directed the feature documentary film, Rare Connections, to be released in 2025.
Ágnes is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Fellow of the American Physical Society, and Yale University Fellow.
​As professor she developed non-traditional ways of approaching physics in tandem with the arts at Pratt Institute and Yale University. As theoretical physicist she made significant contributions in high energy nuclear physics, investigating how matter formed microseconds after the Big Bang. As science communicator she had produced and performed shows in bars, physics inspired fashion shows and art shows, and published public articles. She delivered more than 130 invited talks worldwide, and has authored 35 research papers (by 2013). Ágnes has been active in changing the landscape of science.
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Ágnes has held positions at The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, the Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, at Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, at the École Polytechnique and CEA Saclay, Paris, France and the Wright Laboratory at Yale University.