As an undergraduate in astronomy and physics at the University of Arizona, Travis dabbled in research on a wide variety of topics, including: dark matter, brown dwarfs, eclipsing binary stars, pulsar planets, and near-earth asteroids.
As a graduate student in astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin he did a PhD thesis on white dwarf asteroseismology, building his own specialized Linux cluster and developing a sophisticated computational method to squeeze precious information out of the data.
As a postdoc in Denmark and then at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, he built upon these successes by extending the method to Sun-like stars.
He came to Boulder in 2004 as an NSF Fellow at the High Altitude Observatory where he was hired as a staff scientist in 2006. His recent work includes asteroseismology of solar-type stars with the Kepler satellite, and a southern ground-based survey of chromospheric activity cycles.
At SSI, Travis is leading a project to expand the Asteroseismic Modeling Portal into an end-to-end data analysis and modeling facility, with automated community tools and a full archive of data products.
