Academic CV templates and generator
Multi-page academic CVs in five designs, each in five colours, with numbered publications, appointments, grants and teaching. Fill in the form, watch the preview and download the PDF. Free, no signup.
Have an AI assistant? You don't have to type.
Copy this sentence, paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or another assistant and add your details. It reads the instructions and makes the PDF, or tells you how to connect it first.
Read https://pressa.dev/templates/academic-cv/agent.md and make me an academic CV PDF in the Traditional design. Here are my details: 
The designs
Every design takes exactly the same details: a traditional Latin Modern CV, a classic serif with coloured rules, a clean modern sans-serif, an elegant layout with the headings in the margin, and a timeline with the dates in a column of their own. Each runs to as many pages as your record needs, with your name and the page number in the footer.
Use it with your AI assistant
The quickest way is the sentence at the top of this page: your assistant reads these instructions and makes the PDF, or tells you how to connect Pressa if it cannot yet. Assistants that can run commands (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) do it all on their own.
Or connect Pressa yourself once, then ask for the document in plain words. Your assistant asks 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.Terminalclaude 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.
Each design has its own slug, academic-cv, classic-academic-cv, modern-academic-cv, elegant-academic-cv, timeline-academic-cv, and they all take the same data. Add "color": "navy" next to data for another colour.
curl -X POST https://api.pressa.dev/api/v1/public_templates/academic-cv/render \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d @data.jsonSample 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.
Questions
- Is it free?
- Yes. Without an account you can make 3 PDFs a day. A free account gives you 50 a month, no card needed.
- Is my data stored?
- What you type stays in your browser, so you can come back to it. The finished PDF is kept only so you can download it: the link works for 1 hour without an account and 24 hours with one, and the file is deleted within about a day. If a PDF cannot be built, the error report can quote a few lines of what you typed; it is kept with the usage records.
- What is the small line at the bottom?
- PDFs made without an account carry a small "Made with Pressa" line at the foot of the page. A free account (50 PDFs a month, no card) removes it.
- Can I switch designs after typing my details?
- Yes. All 5 designs take the same details, so picking another one or another colour keeps everything you typed. The preview shows the change right away.
- Is the preview free?
- Yes. The preview beside the form does not count against your free PDFs. It is marked PREVIEW; Download PDF makes the finished document.
- Can I make these automatically?
- Yes. The same template works from your AI assistant, from n8n and through the API with JSON data. See the sections above.