Academic CV template

A multi-page academic CV with numbered publications, appointments, grants and teaching.

What it looks like

The traditional academic curriculum vitae for faculty applications, fellowships and tenure files: small-caps section headings, research interests up front, numbered publications with authors, year and venue in italics, and a running footer with your name and the page number. It grows to as many pages as your record needs.

Use it with your AI assistant

Connect Pressa to your assistant once, then ask for the document in plain words. It asks you for anything it is missing, fills the template and hands you the PDF. To change something later, just say what.

Connect Pressa. In Claude Code run the command below; other assistants that support MCP take the address https://api.pressa.dev/mcp.
Terminal
```
claude mcp add --transport http pressa https://api.pressa.dev/mcp
```

Ask, for example:

You

Use the Pressa template "academic-cv" and fill it with my details. Here is what I have: ...

For developers and automations

Send the fields as JSON and get a link to the PDF. It works without a key for a few documents a day; with a free key you get 50 a month. In n8n this is one HTTP Request node, set up as in the n8n guide.

Terminal

curl -X POST https://api.pressa.dev/api/v1/public_templates/academic-cv/render \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @data.json

Sample data.json

{
  "data": {
    "name": "Elena Varga",
    "position": "Assistant Professor of Economics",
    "department": "Department of Economics",
    "institution": "Lakeshore University",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "website": "elenavarga.example.com",
    "research_interests": "Labor economics, household finance, and the effects of minimum wage policy on small firms. Methods: panel data, natural experiments, and administrative records.",
    "appointments": [
      {
        "position": "Assistant Professor of Economics",
        "institution": "Lakeshore University",
        "dates": "2022 - present"
      },
      {
        "position": "Postdoctoral Fellow",
        "institution": "Center for Labor Studies, Northfield University",
        "dates": "2020 - 2022"
      }
    ],
    "education": [
      {
        "degree": "Ph.D. in Economics",
        "school": "Northfield University",
        "year": "2020"
      },
      {
        "degree": "M.A. in Economics",
        "school": "Northfield University",
        "year": "2016"
      },
      {
        "degree": "B.A. in Economics and Mathematics",
        "school": "Riverside College",
        "year": "2014"
      }
    ],
    "publications": [
      {
        "authors": "Varga, E.",
        "year": "2025",
        "title": "Minimum wages and the survival of small firms: evidence from county borders",
        "venue": "Journal of Labor Research"
      },
      {
        "authors": "Varga, E. and Okafor, D.",
        "year": "2024",
        "title": "Paycheck timing and household borrowing",
        "venue": "Review of Household Finance"
      },
      {
        "authors": "Okafor, D., Varga, E. and Lin, S.",
        "year": "2023",
        "title": "Who pays for scheduling rules? Hours, wages and turnover in retail",
        "venue": "Industrial Relations Quarterly"
      },
      {
        "authors": "Varga, E.",
        "year": "2021",
        "title": "Local labor markets after plant closures",
        "venue": "Regional Economics Letters"
      }
    ],
    "awards": [
      {
        "name": "Early Career Research Grant, Foundation for Labor Research ($120,000)",
        "year": "2024"
      },
      {
        "name": "Outstanding Teaching Award, Lakeshore University",
        "year": "2023"
      },
      {
        "name": "Dissertation Fellowship, Northfield University",
        "year": "2019"
      }
    ],
    "teaching": [
      {
        "course": "Labor Economics (undergraduate)",
        "institution": "Lakeshore University",
        "terms": "Fall 2022 - present"
      },
      {
        "course": "Applied Econometrics (graduate)",
        "institution": "Lakeshore University",
        "terms": "Spring 2023 - present"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Fields, sample data and instructions as JSON: GET https://api.pressa.dev/api/v1/public_templates/academic-cv. Source, free under the MIT license, on GitHub.