23-year-old
genius Sabrina
Gonzalez Pasterski has earned a distinct reputation for being the next
Einstein. She was only 13 years old when she built a single-engine aircraft to
surprise her father. Nine years later, she’s an MIT graduate and a Ph.D.
candidate at Harvard, where she’s studying Physics. She’s frequently appeared
on the list of Forbes’ ’30 under 30.’ And she’s not done yet.
Some
of the physics world’s most desirable jobs are already knocking at Pasterski’s
door. Jeff Bezos of
Amazon has an open invitation for her—and NASA has already expressed
their interest as well. At the moment, however, she’s focusing in on her
studies of black holes, space-time, and gravity—the same fields that fascinated
Einstein and Hawking.
“Years of pushing the bounds of what I could achieve led me to physics,” Pasterski said in an interview, noting that “spotting elegance within the chaos” is what captures her attention most.
Surprisingly,
the young genius shies away from attention and social media. Perhaps that is
because she is remarkably hard on herself. She’s determined to live up to her
reputation.
“I definitely feel like I have way more to do. It’s great to get recognition now, but hopefully, it builds up to something,” Pasterski commented. “I’ll hopefully be right about having some kind of gut feeling that [will becomes] rather big at some point. Fingers crossed.”
But
for every doubt Pasterski has, she has a fierce advocate pushing her forward. Professor
Allen Haggert, Senior Engineering Lecturer at MIT, notes that “Her potential is
off the charts.” Pasterski graduated from MIT with the highest possible grade
average—a 5.00.
What
do you think? Is Pasterski destined to do great things?
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