Carl Wilhelm Irene "Calie" Pistorius (born 9 August 1958)[1] is a South African electrical engineer who is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull, Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom.

Pistorius obtained the degree B.Sc (Eng) (cum laude) in electronic engineering from the University of Pretoria in 1979 and the degree B.Eng (Hons) (cum laude) in electronic engineering from the same university in 1981.

[3] Pistorius has published widely both nationally and internationally and has 107 academic publications to his credit.

He has received numerous awards and prizes including the prize for the best Ph.D. dissertation from the ElectroScience Laboratory at the Ohio State University, the President's Award from the National Research Foundation and the Bill Venter Prize for outstanding contributions to research published in book form by university personnel in South Africa.

[3] He resigned from the position of vice-chancellor of the University of Hull in 2017, and was succeeded by Susan Lea.