Dr. Stoltz received a BS in Physics from the University of California-Berkeley in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Colorado in 1996. Dr. Stoltz completed his post-doctoral research at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory developing particle-in-cell simulation codes for heavy-ion fusion beams. Dr. Stoltz has also worked Sandia National Laboratories as a post-doctoral research scientist developing magneto-hydrodynamic simulation codes for z-pinch x-ray sources.

Dr. Stoltz designed and implemented a graphical user interface for the PPPL heavy-ion code using IDL, and wrote a GUI tool in IDL for post-processing simulation results while at Sandia. Some of Dr. Stoltz' recent work involved the development of a scientific steering package based on Python where he also used MPI to prototype a parallel version of that scripting language. Dr. Stoltz also headed the development of the parallel IDL prototype developed by Tech-X Corporation in 2002.

• P. H. Stoltz, J. R. Cary, G. Penn, and J. Wurtele, "Efficiency of a Boris-like Integration Scheme with Spatial Stepping," Phys. Rev. ST/AB 5, 094001,1-9 (2002).
• P.H. Stoltz, et al, "Numerical Simulation of Secondary Electron Emission in the High Current Experiment", Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 6, 054701, 2003
• P.H. Stoltz and B.V. Oliver, "Growth Rates of the m=0 Mode for Bennett Equilibria with Varying Radial Density and Temperature Profiles", Physics of Plasmas 8 (6), 2001