Sabrina Pasterski | Perimeter Institute

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

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.

Positions Held

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

Awards

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

Recent Publications

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
Kulp, J., & Pasterski, S. (2024). Multiparticle States for the Flat Hologram. arxiv:2501.00462v1
May, A., Pasterski, S., Waddell, C., & Xu, M. (2024). Cryptographic tests of the python's lunch conjecture. arxiv:2411.10527v4
Jørstad, E., & Pasterski, S. (2024). A Comment on Boundary Correlators: Soft Omissions and the Massless S-Matrix. arxiv:2410.20296v1
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. doi:10.48550/arxiv.2404.14491
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:2402.18798v2
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
Hu, Y., & Pasterski, S. (n.d.). Celestial recursion. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(1), 151. doi:10.1007/jhep01(2023)151
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
Hu, Y., & Pasterski, S. (n.d.). Celestial conformal colliders. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(2), 243. doi:10.1007/jhep02(2023)243
Mizera, S., & Pasterski, S. (n.d.). Celestial geometry. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(9), 45. doi:10.1007/jhep09(2022)045
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. (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
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
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
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

Seminars

Lifting Swing Surfaces to AdS, UMichigan HET Seminar, 2025/04/04
The 19th Kavli Asian Winter School on Strings, Particles and Cosmology, Sanya, 2025/01/13
Lifting Swing Surfaces to AdS, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 2024/12/23
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