Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski

Sabrina.

Welcome to the show.

Man, I've been excited about this.

So you're labeled, and I know you're probably going to downplay this, the next Einstein.

You don't like that?

Well, I think we're going to get into all that.

But, you know, the stuff you're doing, I don't even know how to say it, but it sounds like, and we're going to get into it in a minute, but it sounds like what you're studying is if everything is a hologram.

Right on, right on.

Are you ready to get into it?

All right, let's do it.

I'm going to start you off with an introduction here.

Sabrina Gonzalez-Pasterski, born in Chicago, Illinois, first-generation Cuban-American.

At age nine, your first flight lesson ignited a lifelong obsession with flight and physics behind it.

Between ages 12 and 14, you spent two years building a single-engine Zenith.

Rejected by Harvard, waitlisted at MIT, you got off the waitlist because of the airplane you built.

Earned your PhD from Harvard in 2019 in high-energy theoretical physics.

Leading the Celestial Holography Initiative, a project aimed at encoding the entire universe as a hologram to unite quantum mechanics and general relativity.

Named to Scientific Americans 30 Under 30 in 2012 and Forbes 30 Under 30 Science List in 2015,

one of the Albert Einstein Foundation's 100 Greatest Innovators in 2018.

First woman to chair the flagship annual strings conference for the global string theory community.