Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski
Born (1993-06-03) June 3, 1993
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Residence Edison Park, Chicago
Citizenship U.S.
Nationality Cuban-American
Institutions Boeing Phantom Works, CERN, NASA[1]
Education Ph.D. Candidate[2]
Alma mater Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor Andrew Strominger
Known for 'Spin Memory,'[3] and 'the Triangle'[4]
Influences Jeff Bezos[5]
Notable awards Inaugural MIT Freshman Entrepreneurship Award[6]

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski is an American physicist from Chicago, Illinois. She is a first generation Cuban-American who completed her undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is currently a graduate student at Harvard University. She is studying string theory and high energy physics.[7] Pasterski was 12 when she co-piloted FAA1 at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.[8] At 14, she sought MIT's assistance with certification of the single-engine airplane she had built from a kit.[9] At 21, Pasterski introduced Harvard to 'the Triangle' and 'Spin Memory,'[10] and completed 'the Triangle' for E&M[4] during an invited talk at MIT's Center for Theoretical Physics.[11] At 22, she spoke at a Harvard Faculty Conference about whether or not those concepts should be applied to black hole hair[12] and discussed her new method for detecting gravitational waves.[13] She has received job offers from Blue Origin, an aerospace company founded by Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).[14]

Early life and education

Pasterski was born in Chicago on June 3, 1993. She enrolled at the Edison Regional Gifted Center in 1998. She started flying lessons in 2003 and building a kit aircraft in 2006.[15] She soloed her Cessna 150 in Canada in 2007 and certified her kit aircraft as airworthy in 2008.[16] Her first U.S. solo flight was in that kit aircraft in 2009 after being signed off by her CFI Jay Maynard.[17] She graduated from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in 2010.[18] She has stated that Jeff Bezos[5] drew her into physics and that her scientific heroes are Leon Lederman, Dudley Herschbach, and Freeman Dyson.[5]

Awards and honors

Media coverage

In early 2016, a paper by Stephen Hawking, Malcolm J. Perry, and Andrew Strominger (Pasterski's doctoral advisor whom at the time she was working independently of)[22] entitled "Soft Hair on Black Holes" cited two papers that Pasterski co-authored with Strominger et al., and one paper of which Pasterski was sole author.[23] Actor George Takei (Hikaru Sulu) introduced Pasterski to his nearly 2 million Twitter followers with this quotation: "'Hopefully I'm known for what I do and not what I don't do.' A poignant sentiment.'[24]

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