Women like Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, whose love of science and technology took flight — quite literally — when she first rode in an airplane at age 9 and dreamed of creating spacecraft. At 10, she rebuilt an airplane engine at her Chicago home. At 12, she built an entire airplane. At 14, she took it on a test flight. Now, Pasterski is one of the leading theoretical physicists in the world. Her work has been cited by the great theorist Stephen Hawking. She has degrees from Harvard and MIT and is a principal investigator at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. She studies such advanced topics as quantum gravity, black holes and space time. She has never had a social media account but posts links to her talks and papers at PhysicsGirl.com. As an advocate for Let Girls Learn, a government initiative launched by former president Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama that focuses on assisting girls obtain an education that empowers them, Pasterski was invited to the White House in 2016. Despite her many personal accomplishments and incredible academic record, it was Pasterski’s research that garnered her this much deserved attention and unofficial title of the “Next Albert Einstein.” In fact, Stephen Hawking cited three of Pasterski’s published papers, two with written with her colleagues and one written individually, in his own work in 2016. A “proud, first-generation Cuban-American,” she is a leading advocate of STEM science education for girls, especially girls of color.

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