Frans Pretorius | |
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| Born | 31 July 1973 |
| Nationality | South African Canadian United States |
| Alma mater | University of Victoria University of British Columbia |
| Awards | Sloan Fellowship (2010) Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics (2010) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computational physics |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology University of Alberta Princeton University |
| Thesis | Numerical Simulations of Gravitational Collapse (2002) |
| Doctoral advisor | Matthew Choptuik |
Frans Pretorius (born 31 July 1973) is a South African and Canadian physicist, specializing in computer simulations in astrophysics and numerical solutions of Einstein's field equations. He is professor of physics at Princeton University and director of the Princeton Gravity Initiative.