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Physicist · Filmmaker · Professor
Ágnes Mócsy is a Brooklyn-based Hungarian-American physicist, filmmaker, and educator. Her work lives in the space where science meets art, where the personal meets the universal, and where seemingly contradictory worlds are held together rather than resolved. Through science, cinema, performance, poetry, and scientific inquiry, she creates experiences that explore the invisible threads that connect people, ideas, memory, and place.​
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As a theoretical physicist, Ágnes has made influential contributions to understanding how matter formed in the first microseconds after the Big Bang. As a filmmaker, she directed, produced, and wrote the feature documentary Rare Connections, recipient of multiple international festival awards and recognitions, and Smashing Matters (2017). Through her creative studio, Multitudes, her recent work embraces intimate, poetic storytelling that extends beyond science while remaining rooted in questions of what it means to be human.
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Ágnes has developed interdisciplinary performances, exhibitions, and conversations that dissolve traditional boundaries between science, art, and culture. She has delivered more than 150 invited talks worldwide, authored over 35 scientific publications, and continues to create spaces where disciplines, cultures, and people meet.
Ágnes is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, and a Yale Presidential Fellow. She is Professor of Physics at Pratt Institute, Adjunct Professor at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University, and Fellow of Jonathan Edwards College at Yale University.