Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski (PhD Harvard University, 2019) is a high energy theorist who joined the Perimeter Institute faculty in 2021 after completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science.

She is a young leader in recent efforts to understand the holographic nature of asymptotically flat spacetimes. She has seminal contributions elucidating the imprint of asymptotic symmetries in the dual celestial formulation of gravity, discovering infinite dimensional symmetry enhancements of the S-matrix, a new observable memory effect in gravity, a framework for generalizing these IR features to other theories, and a systematic method to recast S-matrix elements as co-dimension 2 CFT correlators.

As the founder and principal investigator of Perimeter’s Celestial Holography Initiative, she is leading a team of amplitudes, mathematical physics, and quantum gravity researchers to jointly tackle this problem of encoding our universe as a hologram.