Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski is a Cuban-American physicist and aerospace engineer known for her remarkable achievements at a young age. Born in Chicago in 1993, she built her first airplane at the age of 12 and successfully flew it at 14. A prodigy in physics, she graduated from MIT in just three years with a perfect 5.0 GPA, becoming the first woman to achieve this in her department. After earning her PhD from Harvard, where she made significant contributions to the understanding of gravitational waves, Pasterski has been recognized by Forbes and Scientific American as one of the 30 Under 30. She recently declined multiple lucrative offers, including a $1.1 million position at Brown University, to join the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics as their youngest professor, where she leads research on the Celestial Holography Initiative.