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Physicist | Filmmaker | Professor
Dr. Ágnes Mócsy is a Brooklyn-based Hungarian-American physicist and filmmaker whose work connects ideas, disciplines, and cultures. She is Professor of Physics at Pratt Institute and Adjunct Professor at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University.
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She creates films that uncover the human side of science, dissolve the boundaries between art and physics, and lean into the emotionality of existence. She directed, produced, and wrote her feature documentary Rare Connections to be released soon. Her first film, Smashing Matters (2017) examined the creativity, pressures, and anxieties of scientific research.
Parallel to filmmaking, Ágnes has developed interdisciplinary performance works that bring physics into bars, theaters, and even fashion runways through movement, art, costume, and narrative. As a theoretical physicist, she made influential contributions to understanding how matter formed microseconds after the Big Bang. As a professor and public communicator, she develops new ways to access physics through creativity, design, and storytelling. She has given more than 140 invited talks worldwide and authored 35 scientific papers, and has been a consistent voice in expanding who feels seen, valued, and represented within science.
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Ágnes is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Humboldt Fellow, and a Yale University Fellow. She previously held positions at the Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen), Goethe University (Frankfurt), Brookhaven National Laboratory (NY), École Polytechnique and CEA Saclay (Paris), and the Wright Laboratory at Yale University.