

Pasterski's 2016 work in promoting the Let Girls Learn initiative was recognized by an invitation to the White House, a congratulatory message from the White House played on network television, and a two-page spread in Marie Claire 's January 2017 issue with former First Lady Michelle Obama. Jobs Trust article included in the tweet has been shared 1,200,000 times. Hawking's citation of Pasterski's solo work on the PSZ Triangle was publicized by actor George Takei when he quoted her on his Twitter account: "Hopefully I'm known for what I do and not what I don't do." The Steven P. She is projected to complete a postdoc at Princeton University's Princeton Center for Theoretical Science in 2022, and is currently on leave from a Faculty-Physics position at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. She earned her PhD in Physics from Harvard University in May 2019. She then completed the Pasterski–Strominger–Zhiboedov Triangle for electromagnetic memory in a 2015 solo paper that Stephen Hawking cited in early 2016. Her early work resulted in discovery of the "spin memory effect" which may be used to detect or verify the net effects of gravitational waves. While a graduate student at Harvard, she worked with Andrew Strominger.

Education and academia Īs a sophomore at MIT, Pasterski was part of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. She has received job offers from Blue Origin, an aerospace company founded by 's Jeff Bezos, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In her 2012 Scientific American 30 under 30 interview, Pasterski named among her scientific heroes Leon Lederman, Dudley Herschbach, and Freeman Dyson, and said she was drawn to physics by Jeff Bezos. solo flight was in that kit aircraft in 2009 after being signed off by her CFI Jay Maynard.

She took her first flying lesson in 2003, piloted FAA1 at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in 2005 and started building a kit aircraft by 2006. She enrolled at the Edison Regional Gifted Center in 1998, and graduated from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in 2010. Her father, an attorney and an electrical engineer, encouraged her to follow her dreams. Pasterski was born in New Jersey on June 3 1993, to Mark Pasterski and Maria Gonzalez.

She is known for her unusual list of accomplishments including a 5.00 undergraduate GPA from MIT. In 2015, she was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 Science list, named a Forbes 30 under 30 All Star in 2017, and returned as a judge in 2018 as part of Forbes' first ever all-female Science category judging panel. According to Google Trends, Pasterski was the #3 Trending Scientist for all of 2017. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), earned her PhD from Harvard University and is a PCTS Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University. She describes herself as "a proud first-generation Cuban-American and Chicago Public Schools alumna". Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski (born June 3, 1993) is an American theoretical physicist from Chicago who studies high energy physics. Inaugural MIT Freshman Entrepreneurship Award Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University
