Sabrina Pasterski

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Research Faculty
Areas of research:
Quantum Fields and Strings
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Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski  (PhD Harvard University, 2019) is a high energy theorist who joined the Perimeter faculty in 2021 after completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Princeton Centre for Theoretical Science. Her research prior to joining PI includes discovering infinite dimensional symmetry enhancements of the S-matrix, a new observable memory effect in gravity, and a framework for generalizing these features of infrared physics to other theories. As the founder and principal investigator of our new Celestial Holography Initiative, she is leading a team of amplitudes, mathematical physics, and quantum gravity researchers in a concerted effort to tackle the problem of uniting our understanding of spacetime with quantum theory by encoding our universe as a hologram.
Sabrina is part of our Quantum Fields and Strings group as well as founder and Principal Investigator of our Celestial Holography Initiative (CHI). She was the Lead Coordinator for Strings 2023 and is a Deputy Director of the newly formed Simons Collaboration on Celestial Holography.
  • Deputy Director, Simons Collaboration on Celestial Holography, 2023-present
  • Research Faculty, Perimeter Institute, 2022-present
  • Joint Appointment, Perimeter Institute and Princeton University, 2021-2022
  • Celestial Holography Initiative Founder, Celestial Holography Initiative, 2021-present
  • Women in STEM Spokesperson, Procter & Gamble NYC, 2020
  • Post-Doc with Principal Investigator Privileges, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University, 2019-2022
  • Futures Analyst, DE Shaw, NYC, 2019
  • PhD candidate, The Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, Harvard University, 2014-2019
  • Researcher, CERN MIT-CMS, 2012-2013
  • Aeronautical Engineer, Boeing Phantom Works, 2011
  • Intern, NASA Kennedy Space Center, 2011
  • Intern, Blue Origin LLC, 2009
  • Founder, Sabrina Aircraft Manufacturing, 2005-present
  • Simons Collaboration on Celestial Holography, Simons Foundation, 2023
  • Deputy Director, Simons Collaboration on Celestial Holography, Simons Foundation, 2023
  • IMSA Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, 2019
  • InStyle - Badass Woman, TIME Inc., 2018
  • 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 (All Star), Forbes, 2017
  • Physics 'Rising Star' Award, MIT, 2016
  • 30 under 30 (Science), Forbes, 2015
  • 2013 European Physical Society High Energy and Particle Physics Prize, MIT-CMS, 2013
  • The Joel Matthew Orloff Award (highest graduating GPA), MIT Physics, 2013
  • 2011 MIT Freshman Entrepreneurship Award, MIT, 2011
  • Pasterski, S. (2025). A Chapter on Celestial Holography. In Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics (pp. 471-479). Elsevier. doi:10.1016/b978-0-323-95703-8.00108-7
  • Ciambelli, L., Pasterski, S., & Tabor, E. (n.d.). Radiation in holography. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024(9), 124. doi:10.1007/jhep09(2024)124
  • Asadi, V. R., Kuroiwa, K., Leung, D., May, A., Pasterski, S., & Waddell, C. (2024). Conditional disclosure of secrets with quantum resources. arxiv:2404.14491v2
  • Ciambelli, L., Pasterski, S., & Tabor, E. (2024). Radiation in Holography. doi:10.48550/arxiv.2404.02146
  • Jørstad, E., Pasterski, S., & Sharma, A. (n.d.). Equating extrapolate dictionaries for massless scattering. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024(2), 228. doi:10.1007/jhep02(2024)228
  • Ball, A., Hu, Y., & Pasterski, S. (n.d.). Multicollinear singularities in celestial CFT. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024(2), 219. doi:10.1007/jhep02(2024)219
  • Guevara, A., Hu, Y., & Pasterski, S. (2024). Multiparticle Contributions to the Celestial OPE. arxiv:2402.18798v1
  • Hu, Y., & Pasterski, S. (n.d.). Detector operators for celestial symmetries. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(12), 35. doi:10.1007/jhep12(2023)035
  • Pasterski, S. (2023). A Chapter on Celestial Holography. arxiv:2310.04932v2
  • Jørstad, E., Pasterski, S., & Sharma, A. (2023). Equating Extrapolate Dictionaries for Massless Scattering. doi:10.48550/arxiv.2310.02186
  • Pasterski, S. (n.d.). A shorter path to celestial currents. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(5), 190. doi:10.1007/jhep05(2023)190
  • Banerjee, S., & Pasterski, S. (n.d.). Revisiting the shadow stress tensor in celestial CFT. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(4), 118. doi:10.1007/jhep04(2023)118
  • Jorge-Diaz, C., Pasterski, S., & Sharma, A. (n.d.). Celestial amplitudes in an ambidextrous basis. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(2), 155. doi:10.1007/jhep02(2023)155
  • Pasterski, S., & Hu, Y. (2023). Celestial recursion. doi:10.1007/JHEP01(2023)151
  • Pasterski, S. (n.d.). A comment on loop corrections to the celestial stress tensor. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(1), 25. doi:10.1007/jhep01(2023)025
  • Hu, Y., & Pasterski, S. (n.d.). Celestial conformal colliders. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(2), 243. doi:10.1007/jhep02(2023)243
  • Harlow, D., Kachru, S., Maldacena, J., Bah, I., Blake, M., Bousso, R., . . . Yoshida, B. (2022). TF1 Snowmass Report: Quantum gravity, string theory, and black holes. doi:10.48550/arxiv.2210.01737
  • Mizera, S., & Pasterski, S. (n.d.). Celestial geometry. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(9), 45. doi:10.1007/jhep09(2022)045
  • Pasterski, S., & Verlinde, H. (n.d.). Mapping SYK to the sky. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(9), 47. doi:10.1007/jhep09(2022)047
  • Hu, Y., & Pasterski, S. (n.d.). Celestial recursion. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(1), 151. doi:10.1007/jhep01(2023)151
  • Pasterski, S., & Verlinde, H. (n.d.). Chaos in celestial CFT. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(8), 106. doi:10.1007/jhep08(2022)106
  • Donnay, L., Pasterski, S., & Puhm, A. (n.d.). Goldilocks modes and the three scattering bases. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(6), 124. doi:10.1007/jhep06(2022)124
  • Adventures in Flat Holography, Colloquium, 2024/11/27, PIRSA:24110082
  • The IR Triangle, 2024/10/12
  • Radiation in Holography IV, Simons Collaboration on Celestial Holography, 2024/06/18
  • Radiation in Holography III, ICTP SAIFR, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2024/05/23
  • The Celestial Hologram: From Stargazing to Quantum Gravity and Back, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Plainsboro Center, United States, 2024/04/10
  • Multiparticle States in Celestial CFT, Adolfo Ibáñez University, Santiago, Chile, 2024/03/04
  • Celestial Holography from Bottom-up to Top-down, Western Hemisphere Colloquium on Geometry and Physics, 2023/12/11
  • Inversions, Shadows, and Extrapolate Dictionaries in CCFT, University of Oxford, Mathematical Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2023/11/03
  • Celestial Colliders, University of Oxford, Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2023/11/02
  • From Celestial CFTs to Conformal Colliders and Back, University of Toronto, Physics, Toronto, Canada, 2023/10/06
  • Elements of Celestial Holography, University of Warsaw, 2023/08/21
  • Celestial Holography: Where Amplitudes, Bootstrap, and Quantum Gravity Collide, Harvard University, Black Hole Initiative, Cambridge, United States, 2023/05/01
  • Reorganizing Scattering via Symmetries, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States, 2023/04/04
  • Celestial Conformal Colliders +, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2023/03/20
  • The Celestial Hologram, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, 2022/11/03
  • Comments on Celestial Recursion, Workshop on Celestial Amplitudes and Flat Space Holography, Corfu, 2022/09/13
  • Symmetries and Celestial Amplitudes, Amplitudes 2022, 2022/08/11