Physicist, Professor, Science Communicator, Filmmaker, Inclusion Activist
Hungarian-American theoretical physicist Ágnes Mócsy, Fellow of the American Physical Society, is a Visiting Professor in the Physics Department at Yale University, as Yale Presidential Fellow, on leave from her professorship at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Ágnes's current research rooted in her carreer as researcher on how matter formed in the early universe, explores the intersection of science and the arts and that of the gender and racial landscape and inclusivity in science. Her public talks and performances communicate and promote science as well as inclusion. Her documentary film "Smashing Matters: Behind the Science Scene" www.smashingmatters.com premiered at the New Haven Documentary Film Festival.
Previously, Ágnes held positions at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, as Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, and at the RIKEN-BNL Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, and visiting appointments at École Polytechnique and CEA Saclay in Paris, France and Yale University.
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