Physics Phenom

AT 25, SABRINA GONZALEZ PASTERSKI IS ALREADY CHANGING THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT THE UNIVERSE.

- Shalayne Pulia

By the time Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski was 13, she had learned how to fly a plane, built her own aircraft, and flown it solo. Since then, the aeronautical wunderkind’s academic career has similarly taken flight. Pasterski earned an undergraduate physics degree from MIT in three years with a perfect GPA and is now a Ph.D. candidate in physics at Harvard’s Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature.