LaTeX academic CV template

A LaTeX academic CV template for a PhD, postdoc or faculty application.

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main.tex

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}

% Margins. A CV is read on screen as often as on paper, so keep them generous.
\usepackage[top=2.2cm,bottom=2.2cm,left=2.4cm,right=2.4cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}

% Footer on every page: your name on the left, the page number on the right.
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyfoot[L]{\small Your Name}
\fancyfoot[R]{\small \thepage}

% Section headings: small caps with a rule under them.
\titleformat{\section}{\large\bfseries\scshape}{}{0em}{}[\titlerule]
\titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{2.4ex}{1ex}
\titlespacing*{\subsection}{0pt}{1.6ex}{0.6ex}

\setlist[itemize]{leftmargin=1.4em,topsep=2pt,itemsep=2pt,parsep=0pt}
\setlist[enumerate]{leftmargin=2em,topsep=2pt,itemsep=3pt,parsep=0pt}

\begin{document}

% Contact block. Everything a search committee needs on the first line it reads.
\begin{center}
  {\LARGE\bfseries Your Name}\\[4pt]
  Department of Computer Science, University Name\\
  123 Example Street, City, Country\\
  \href{mailto:[email protected]}{[email protected]} \textbar\ +1 555 0100 \textbar\
  \href{https://example.edu/~yourname}{example.edu/\textasciitilde yourname}\\
  ORCID 0000-0000-0000-0000
\end{center}

\section{Research interests}

Machine learning for the physical sciences, with a focus on models that stay
usable when data is sparse. Current work covers probabilistic forecasting of
river discharge, uncertainty calibration for small sample regimes, and the
reproducibility of published benchmarks.

\section{Appointments}

\noindent\textbf{Postdoctoral Researcher}, University Name \hfill 2023 to Present\\
Department of Computer Science, City, Country. Advisor: Prof.\ A.\ Supervisor.

\smallskip
\noindent\textbf{Research Assistant}, Institute Name \hfill 2019 to 2023\\
City, Country. Hydrological modeling group.

\section{Education}

\noindent\textbf{Ph.D.\ Computer Science}, University Name \hfill 2019 to 2023\\
Thesis: Probabilistic Forecasting Under Sparse Observations.
Committee: Prof.\ A.\ Supervisor (chair), Prof.\ B.\ Reader.

\smallskip
\noindent\textbf{M.Sc.\ Applied Mathematics}, University Name \hfill 2017 to 2019\\
City, Country. Graduated with distinction.

\smallskip
\noindent\textbf{B.Sc.\ Mathematics}, University Name \hfill 2014 to 2017\\
City, Country.

\section{Publications}

% Numbered once through the whole section: the enumerate below resumes the
% numbering of the one above it.
\subsection*{Journal articles}

\begin{enumerate}
  \item Your Name and A.\ Coauthor. Calibrated discharge forecasts from short
        gauge records. \emph{Journal of Hydrological Modeling}, volume 41,
        number 2, pages 118 to 137, 2025.
  \item B.\ Coauthor, Your Name, and C.\ Coauthor. On the reuse of
        meteorological baselines in benchmark suites. \emph{Journal of Applied
        Statistics}, volume 52, number 4, pages 640 to 661, 2024.
  \item Your Name. Sparse regimes and the failure of pointwise error metrics.
        \emph{Environmental Data Science}, volume 3, pages 1 to 19, 2023.
\end{enumerate}

\subsection*{Conference papers}

\begin{enumerate}[resume]
  \item Your Name and A.\ Coauthor. Interval forecasts that survive a dry year.
        In \emph{Proceedings of the Conference on Machine Learning for the
        Physical Sciences}, pages 77 to 88, 2025.
  \item Your Name, B.\ Coauthor, and D.\ Coauthor. A reproducibility audit of
        twelve river forecasting benchmarks. In \emph{Proceedings of the
        International Workshop on Reproducible Research}, pages 12 to 23, 2024.
  \item Your Name. Uncertainty without a validation set. In \emph{Proceedings
        of the Symposium on Applied Statistics}, pages 205 to 214, 2022.
\end{enumerate}

\section{Grants and awards}

\begin{itemize}
  \item Early Career Research Grant, Funding Agency Name, 120,000 USD,
        2025 to 2027.
  \item Best Student Paper, Symposium on Applied Statistics, 2022.
  \item Doctoral Fellowship, University Name, 2019 to 2023.
\end{itemize}

\section{Invited talks}

\begin{itemize}
  \item Forecasting when the record is short. Department Colloquium,
        University Name, City, Country, 2025.
  \item What benchmarks hide. Machine Learning Seminar, Institute Name, City,
        Country, 2024.
  \item Uncertainty for practitioners. Summer School on Environmental Data,
        City, Country, 2023.
\end{itemize}

\section{Teaching}

\noindent\textbf{Instructor of record}, Statistical Learning (graduate)
\hfill 2024, 2025\\
University Name. 45 students, redesigned the assignments around open data.

\smallskip
\noindent\textbf{Teaching Assistant}, Probability and Statistics
\hfill 2019 to 2022\\
University Name. Ran weekly tutorials and the grading for 200 students.

\smallskip
\noindent\textbf{Thesis supervision}\\
Three master's theses and five bachelor's projects since 2023.

\section{Service}

\begin{itemize}
  \item Reviewer: Journal of Hydrological Modeling, Environmental Data Science,
        Conference on Machine Learning for the Physical Sciences.
  \item Program committee: International Workshop on Reproducible Research,
        2024 and 2025.
  \item Organizer: departmental reading group on probabilistic forecasting,
        2022 to Present.
\end{itemize}

\section{References}

\noindent Prof.\ A.\ Supervisor, University Name,
\href{mailto:[email protected]}{[email protected]}\\
Prof.\ B.\ Reader, Institute Name,
\href{mailto:[email protected]}{[email protected]}\\
Further references available on request.

\end{document}

How to use this template

Everything runs in your browser: nothing to install, no login, no compile timeout.

Click Open in LaTeX.to. The template opens as a project in the Projects pane, with main.tex in the editor and its finished PDF in the preview.
Replace the placeholders, such as Your Name, with your own text. The % comments in the files mark the places to edit.
Click Preview, or press Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on a Mac), to compile. The preview shows the new PDF; you do not need to save first.
If the compile fails, the Console pane opens with the LaTeX log. The first error in it says what went wrong and on which line.
To add an image, a .bib file or another .tex file, open the project's menu (the three dots next to its name in the Projects pane) and choose Upload file or New file.
The arrow next to Preview has Download PDF. Ctrl+S saves your edits, and the project stays in your browser on this device.

How to add a publication

The two lists number themselves, so a new paper is one \item line.

Under \subsection*{Journal articles}, add an \item inside the enumerate, newest first, written like the existing ones: authors, title, journal in \emph{...}, volume, pages, year.
Conference papers go in the second list, which continues the numbering of the first (\begin{enumerate}[resume]), so all publications count up in one sequence.
For another kind of publication, copy a \subsection* line and its \begin{enumerate}[resume] block and give it a new heading, for example Book chapters.
Write your own name in full in every entry, so your position in the author list is visible.

How to change the footer

Your name is printed at the bottom of every page, from a line near the top of main.tex that is easy to miss.

Find \fancyfoot[L]{\small Your Name} and put your name there.
The page number on the right comes from \fancyfoot[R]{\small \thepage}; delete that line if you do not want page numbers.
For no footer at all, replace \pagestyle{fancy} with \pagestyle{empty}.

How to print on US Letter paper

The file is set up for A4, the paper size used outside North America.

In the first line, change a4paper to letterpaper.
Leave the margins as they are; the geometry line below works for both sizes.

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