Sabrina Pasterski

Overview
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.
Research Interests
Positions Held
- Princeton-Perimeter Institute joint appointment, Princeton
- Celestial Holography Initiative Founder, Chicago
- Procter & Gamble Women in STEM Spokesperson, NYC
- PCTS Post-Doc with Principal Investigator Privileges, Princeton
- DE Shaw Futures Analyst, NYC
- The Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature PhD candidate, Harvard
- CERN MIT-CMS, Geneva
- Boeing Phantom Works aeronautical engineer, Huntington Beach
- NASA Kennedy Space Center intern, Port Canaveral
- Blue Origin intern, Kent
- Sabrina Aircraft Manufacturing Founder, Chicago
Awards
- 2022 Perimeter Research Initiative funding (CA$900,000)
- 2021 Sam B. Treiman Fellowship ($83,000)
- 2021 Brown University Research funding ($700,000 declined)
- 2019 IMSA Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award
- 2018 Genius100 Membership
- 2018 TIME Inc. InStyle Badass Woman
- 2018 Discovery Canada's International Women's Day Honoree
- 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 (Judge)
- 2017 Royal Keynote, Amsterdam
- 2017 Diplomatic Reception in Honor of Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, American Physicist, Spaso House, Moscow
- 2017 Silicon Valley Comic Con Headliner
- 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 (All Star)
- 2016 Young Women's Honors Genius Award
- 2016 MIT Physics 'Rising Star' Award
- 2015 Hertz Foundation Fellowship ($250,000)
- 2015 National Science Foundation Fellowship ($150,000)
- 2015 Forbes 30 under 30 (Science)
- 2014 Harvard Smith Fellowship ($50,000)
- 2013 European Physical Society High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (MIT-CMS)
- 2013 MIT Physics Orloff Scholarship Award (highest graduating GPA)
- 2013 Harvard James Mills Peirce Fellowship ($18,000)
- 2013 MIT Fellowship ($50,000 declined)
- 2013 Harvard Purcell Fellowship ($50,000)
- 2012 Lindau-Nobel Young Researcher
- 2012 Scientific American 30 under 30
- 2011 MIT Freshman Entrepreneurship Award
- 2010 Illinois Aviation Trades Association Industry Achievement Award
- 2010 Illinois All-State Academic Team 'Top of the World' Scholar Award
Recent Publications
- S Mizera, S Pasterski, Celestial Geometry, JHEP, 2204.02505
- L Donnay, S Pasterski, A Puhm, Goldilocks Modes and the Three Scattering Bases, JHEP, 2202.11127
- S Pasterski, H Verlinde, Mapping SYK to the Sky, JHEP, 2201.05054
- S Pasterski, H Verlinde, Chaos in Celestial CFT, JHEP, 2201.01630
- S Pasterski, M Pate, A Raclariu, Celestial Holography, Snowmass, 2111.11392
- Y Pano, S Pasterski, A Puhm, Conformally Soft Fermions, JHEP, 2108.11422
- S Pasterski, Lectures on Celestial Amplitudes, EPJC, 2108.04801
- S Pasterski, A Comment on Loop Corrections to the Celestial Stress Tensor, 2205.10901
- S Pasterski, A Shorter Path to Celestial Currents, 2201.06805
Seminars
- Celestial Holography (GR23 Beijing) https://gr23beijing.scimeeting.cn/en/web/applicants-list/12114
- Themes in Celestial CFT (SUSY 2022 Ioannina) https://youtu.be/PoIt42V7uYQ
- Mining Celestial Symmetries (Harvard) https://physicsgirl.com/mcs.pdf
- Loop Corrections to the Celestial Stress Tensor (King's College London) https://physicsgirl.com/p5.pdf
- Revisiting the Flat Space Hologram (ICTS Bengaluru) https://youtu.be/IsEKiXZr5hY
- Celestial Geometry meets Celestial Currents (UCLA) https://physicsgirl.com/ucla.pdf
- A Shorter Path to Celestial Currents (McGill) https://youtu.be/TgYgP1xS36A
- Goldilocks Modes and the Three Scattering Bases (UC Davis) https://physicsgirl.com/goldilocks.pdf
- Sabrina's Celestial Almanac (Princeton) https://physicsgirl.com/sca.pdf
- SHEP Friday Seminar (Southampton) https://www.hep.phys.soton.ac.uk/events/B325
- An Invitation to Celestial Amplitudes (DAMTP colloquium) https://youtu.be/PnFEutuZTs8
- Harnessing Symmetry in a Celestial Basis (SLAC) https://theory.slac.stanford.edu/events/month/grid/2021-09-01
- Fun with Celestial Dressings: Harbingers of Chaos, Heralds of Symmetry (Edinburgh) https://youtu.be/AZtTEv9jIKo
- Celestial Pyramids (Corfu) https://youtu.be/gmUqWrmgsTw
- Diamonds, Dressings, Shockwaves & Chaos (Harvard) https://physicsgirl.com/ddsc.pdf
- PIRSA:22030018, Chaos in Celestial CFT, 2022-03-09, Quantum Fields and Strings
- PIRSA:21020004, Prospects in Celestial Holography , 2021-02-10, Colloquium
- PIRSA:18100085, Superrotations and Flat Space Holography, 2018-10-30, Quantum Fields and Strings