Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski is a Cuban-American physicist who is being called “the next Albert Einstein.
Pasterski’s interest in STEM began at an early age. She built an airplane engine at age 10 and a complete airplane two years later which she took for a solo test flight at 14 years old.
After graduating at the top of her class with a 5.0 Grade Point Average (GPA) from the Massachusetts Institution of Technology (MIT), she was a PhD candidate in Physics at Harvard University at only 21 years of age.
“Years of pushing the bounds of what I could achieve led me to physics,” said Pasterski in an interview with Yahoo.
Pasterski is “interested in quantum gravity and holography” and her “current research focuses on scattering in asymptotically flat spacetimes and constructing a putative codimension 2 dual CFT,” according to her Postdoctoral Fellows page on Princeton University’s website.
Pasterski was immediately enamored of planes and physics since the first time she got on a plane.
“Building an airplane from a kit and flying as a child, I longed to understand the physics, application and reach of flight,” she said.
In 2012, Pasterski was named as one of “30 under 30” in a Scientific American column when she was only 19 and was named to another list with the same name published by Forbes magazine in 2015 when she was only 21 years old.
Pasterski is trailblazing a path for other Hispanics to pursue STEM careers.
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