Sabrina Pasterski

Sabrina Gonzalez 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
  • Celestial Holography Initiative Founder, Celestial Holography Initiative, 2021-present
  • Women in STEM Spokesperson, Procter & Gamble NYC, 2020-present
  • Futures Analyst, DE Shaw, NYC, 2019
  • Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University, 2019-2022
  • Post-Doc with Principal Investigator Privileges, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University, 2019-2022
  • PhD candidate, The Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, Harvard University, 2013-2019
  • Researcher, CERN MIT-CMS, 2012-2013
  • Intern, NASA Kennedy Space Center, 2011-2012
  • Aeronautical Engineer, Boeing Phantom Works, 2011
  • Intern, Blue Origin LLC, 2009
  • Founder, Sabrina Aircraft Manufacturing, 2005-present
  • 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
  • Hu, Y., & Pasterski, S. (2023). Detector Operators for Celestial Symmetries. arxiv:2307.16801v1
  • Pasterski, S. (n.d.). A shorter path to celestial currents. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(5). 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). 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). 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). doi:10.1007/jhep01(2023)025
  • Hu, Y., & Pasterski, S. (2022). Celestial Conformal Colliders. 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. arxiv:2210.01737v2
  • Mizera, S., & Pasterski, S. (n.d.). Celestial geometry. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(9). doi:10.1007/jhep09(2022)045
  • Pasterski, S., & Verlinde, H. (n.d.). Mapping SYK to the sky. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(9). doi:10.1007/jhep09(2022)047
  • Hu, Y., & Pasterski, S. (2022). Celestial Recursion. doi:10.1007/JHEP01(2023)151
  • Pasterski, S., & Verlinde, H. (n.d.). Chaos in celestial CFT. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(8). 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). doi:10.1007/jhep06(2022)124
  • Pano, Y., Pasterski, S., & Puhm, A. (n.d.). Conformally soft fermions. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(12). doi:10.1007/jhep12(2021)166
  • Pasterski, S. (2021). Lectures on celestial amplitudes. The European Physical Journal C, 81(12). doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09846-7
  • Pasterski, S., Pate, M., & Raclariu, A. -M. (2021). Celestial Holography. arxiv:2111.11392v1
  • Pasterski, S., Puhm, A., & Trevisani, E. (n.d.). Celestial diamonds: conformal multiplets in celestial CFT. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(11). doi:10.1007/jhep11(2021)072
  • Pasterski, S., Puhm, A., & Trevisani, E. (2021). Revisiting the conformally soft sector with celestial diamonds. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(11). doi:10.1007/jhep11(2021)143
  • Pasterski, S., & Puhm, A. (n.d.). Shifting spin on the celestial sphere. Physical Review D, 104(8). doi:10.1103/physrevd.104.086020
  • Pasterski, S., & Verlinde, H. (2021). HPS meets AMPS: how soft hair dissolves the firewall. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(9). doi:10.1007/jhep09(2021)099
  • Himwich, E., Mirzaiyan, Z., & Pasterski, S. (2021). A note on the subleading soft graviton. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(4). doi:10.1007/jhep04(2021)172
  • Donnay, L., Pasterski, S., & Puhm, A. (2020). Asymptotic symmetries and celestial CFT. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(9). doi:10.1007/jhep09(2020)176
  • Esole, M., & Pasterski, S. (2020). Flops and Fibral Geometry of E$_7$-models. arxiv:2004.06104v1
  • Piecing Together a Flat Hologram, Puzzles in the Quantum Gravity Landscape: viewpoints from different approaches, 2023/10/23, PIRSA:23100061
  • Open Discussion with today's speakers (Donoghue, Erdmenger, Montero, Pasterski, Tolley), Puzzles in the Quantum Gravity Landscape: viewpoints from different approaches, 2023/10/23, PIRSA:23100003
  • Elements of Celestial Holography, University of Warsaw, 2023/08/21
  • Panel Discussion: Open questions in Black Holes, Quantum Simulators of Fundamental Physics, 2023/06/07, PIRSA:23060016
  • 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
  • Panel Session: 'Forest vs Trees', The Day of Discovery, 2022/10/20, PIRSA:22100073
  • Perimeter Researcher Talk - 'Into the woods ... ... and through the trees to gravity, amplitudes, and CFTs', The Day of Discovery, 2022/10/20, PIRSA:22100072
  • Cutting Corners with Celestial CFT, Quantum Gravity Around the Corner, 2022/10/06, PIRSA:22100022
  • 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
  • Chaos in Celestial CFT, Quantum Fields and Strings, 2022/03/09, PIRSA:22030018
  • A Shorter Path to Celestial Currents, McGill, 2022/01/01, Video URL
  • Celestial Holography, GR23 Beijing, Beijing, 2022/01/01
  • Mining Celestial Symmetries, Harvard, 2022/01/01
  • Celestial Geometry meets Celestial Currents, UCLA, 2022/01/01
  • Revisiting the Flat Space Hologram, ICTS Bengaluru, 2022/01/01, Video URL
  • Loop Corrections to the Celestial Stress Tensor, King's College London, 2022/01/01
  • Themes in Celestial CFT, SUSY 2022, University of Ioannina, 2022/01/01, Video URL
  • Goldilocks Modes and the Three Scattering Bases, UC Davis, 2022/01/01
  • Sabrina's Celestial Almanac, Princeton, 2022/01/01
  • SHEP Friday Seminar, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, 2021/11/19, Video URL
  • Prospects in Celestial Holography , Colloquium, 2021/02/10, PIRSA:21020004
  • Fun with Celestial Dressings: Harbingers of Chaos, Heralds of Symmetry, Higgs Centre Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2021/01/01, Video URL
  • Diamonds, Dressings, Shockwaves & Chaos, Harvard, 2021/01/01
  • Celestial Pyramids, Corfu, 2021/01/01, Video URL
  • Harnessing Symmetry in a Celestial Basis, SLAC, 2021/01/01
  • An Invitation to Celestial Amplitudes, DAMTP Colloquium, DAMTP, 2021/01/01, Video URL