Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics (2010) Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016) New Horizons in Physics Prize (2017) Dirac Medal of the ICTP (2021) 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.

For his doctoral dissertation on numerical simulation of gravitational collapse, Pretorius received the 2003 Nicholas Metropolis Award of the American Physical Society.

[2] Pretorius has numerically investigated the possibilities and the signatures of small black holes in particle colliders such as the LHC.

[5] Pretorius and his collaborators numerically investigated the high energy collision of two black holes.

[6] Pretorius was a Sloan Fellow in 2010 and received in 2010 the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics.