Sonia Paban is a high-energy theorist currently working on early universe physics. She is interested in understanding the effects of many active fields during inflation. Most recently, she has studied the robustness of inflation to inhomogeneous initial conditions and the impact on the power spectrum and non-gaussianity of primordial anisotropy. Paban grew up in Catalonia, Spain, and received her B.S. and doctorate from the Universitat de Barcelona. Most recently, she was a faculty member at University of Texas at Austin.