Ágnes Mócsy

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Ágnes Mócsy
Ágnes Mócsy speaking at Brookhaven Lab.jpg
Ágnes Mócsy speaking at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 2015
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota
University of Bergen
Babeș-Bolyai University
Scientific career
InstitutionsPratt Institute
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Niels Bohr Institute
Goethe University Frankfurt
ThesisNon-Equilibrium Aspects of Chiral Field Theories (2001)
Doctoral advisorJ. Kapusta

Ágnes Mócsy is a Professor of Physics at the Pratt Institute who works on theoretical nuclear physics. She is also a filmmaker, science communicator and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Education and early career[]

Mócsy grew up in the Transylvania region of Romania, where she was a part of the Hungarian minority in the region.[1] She completed her bachelor's degree at Babeș-Bolyai University in 1989.[2] She went on to earn a master's degree physics at the University of Bergen. She then moved to the University of Minnesota, culminating in a PhD in physics.[3][4] Her thesis focused on the phase diagram of quantum chromodynamics.[5] In particular, she studied quarkonia.[6]

Research[]

She was a postdoctoral researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt, the Niels Bohr Institute as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, and the RIKEN-BNL research center at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Mócsy joined the Pratt Institute in 2008, where she teaches astronomy and physics for architects and designers.[7] She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2016 for her innovative exploration of the intersection of science and art.[5][8] In 2017 Mócsy's first documentary film, Smashing Matters: Behind the Science Scene, premiered at the New Haven Documentary Film Festival.[9] The film looks behind the scenes at the international conference Quark Matters and explores the work that goes on at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and Large Hadron Collider.[9] She screened the film at CERN in February 2017.[10] For 2018 and 2019, Mócsy is a Visiting Professor in the Physics Department at Yale University.[11] Mócsy is on the board of SistersMATR, a public engagement project that looks to engage young women of colour in physics.[12][13] She has written for HuffPost on the popular misconception that discoveries in physics are made by lone, usually male geniuses.[14]

References[]

  1. ^ "Dr. Ágnes Mócsy | APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) at Iowa State University". cuwip.physics.iastate.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  2. ^ Harrington, Rebecca (2015-02-11). "The fashonista physicist". Scienceline. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  3. ^ Mocsy, A. (2001-10-14). "Non-Equilibrium Aspects of Chiral Field Theories": 3256. arXiv:hep-ph/0110179. Bibcode:2001PhDT........45M. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ Mócsy, Agnes; Sannino, Francesco; Tuominen, Kimmo (2004-05-07). "Confinement versus chiral symmetry". Physical Review Letters. 92 (18): 182302. arXiv:hep-ph/0308135. Bibcode:2004PhRvL..92r2302M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.182302. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 15169486. S2CID 44992446.
  5. ^ a b "Spotlights on Outreach and Engaging the Public of two APS Fellows FOEP Nominated". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  6. ^ Mocsy, Agnes; Petreczky, Peter (2006-04-10). "Quarkonia Correlators Above Deconfinement". Physical Review D. 73 (7): 074007. arXiv:hep-ph/0512156. Bibcode:2006PhRvD..73g4007M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.73.074007. ISSN 1550-7998. S2CID 119463556.
  7. ^ "Pratt Institute". www.pratt.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  8. ^ "The Art of Communicating Science" (PDF). GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  9. ^ a b "smashingmatters". smashingmatters. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  10. ^ "Quark Matter 2017 (5-11 February 2017) · Indico". Indico. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  11. ^ "Welcome to Agnes Mocsy | Department of Physics". physics.yale.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  12. ^ "sistersmatradmin – SistersMATR". sistersmatr.org. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  13. ^ "Advisory Council – SistersMATR". sistersmatr.org. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  14. ^ "Ágnes Mócsy | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
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