Dr. Daniel B. Schultz, Ph.D.

Dr. Daniel Schultz is a supervisory physicist in the Department of Physics & Nuclear Engineering at the United States Military Academy (USMA). 

He was born in Los Angeles, California, and spent most of his childhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Schultz attended Pennsylvania State University, where he earned bachelor’s degrees in physics and astronomy in 1988. Dr. Schultz was also commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

He then attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned a master’s degree in physics in 1990 and a doctorate in space physics in 1993. For his doctoral dissertation, he observed a comet using a Fabry-Perot spectrometer at Kitt Peak, Arizona.

Upon obtaining his doctorate in 1993, Dr. Schultz went on active duty with the U.S. Army as a first lieutenant in the Ordnance Corps and was assigned to Fort Polk, Louisiana, with the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment. While serving with the 2nd ACR, he was promoted to captain and deployed to Haiti as part of the U.N. Mission in Haiti.

In 1996, Dr. Schultz was assigned to Korea and commanded the 2nd Maintenance Company (TMDE). He then joined the faculty of the Department of Physics at USMA in 1998.

Dr. Schultz left active duty in 2003 and joined the U.S. Army Reserve as a force integration officer with the 99th Regional Readiness Command in Pittsburgh. His civilian job was director of physics laboratories in the Department of Physics at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Schultz was promoted to major in 2004.

In 2005, Dr. Schultz was mobilized and deployed to Afghanistan as an embedded troop trainer to help develop the Afghan National Army. After his demobilization in 2006, he left Case Western Reserve University to become a supervisory physicist in the USMA Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering. He also transferred from the 99th Regional Readiness Command to the 20th Support Command as a reserve nuclear research officer. Dr. Schultz retired from the Reserve in 2008.

He became a certified health physicist in 2014.