CleanCV

Modern, minimal, and modular LaTeX CV template ✨ 📄

Many LaTeX CV templates are ugly, hard to use, or both. CleanCV gives you clean design, simple customization, and advanced features — so you can focus on your research, not formatting.

See the example cv or preview the first 2 pages below (content generated with Claude):

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⭐ Consider giving CleanCV a star on Github. It will guarantee you tenure!

Quick Start

1. Create your CV instantly in Overleaf — Click to open a new Overleaf project with CleanCV pre-loaded
2. Replace example content — Update main.tex and publications.bib with your information

See detailed and step-by-step instructions in customize.md on how to use the advanced features.

To set up your own GitHub repository with version control, see the Create Your Own Repository section below.

Features

• 📁 Smart Sections: Includes common academic sections, all easily configurable

  • Default sections: Research Interests, Education, Experience, Awards & Honors, Publications, Skills, Talks & Presentations, Teaching, Mentoring, Service

• 📖 Professional Typography: Features the ET Book font with spacing optimized for readability

• 🔧 Easy Customization: Change colors, formatting, and styling without breaking anything

• 📝 Commented Style File: Well-commented cleancv.sty that you'll easily understand

• ⚡ Two-Command System: \cvblock for detailed entries, \cvitem for simple lists — it's all you need to learn

• 👤 Contact Integration: Professional contact bar with icons for email, GitHub, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, etc.

• 🔄 CV/Resume Dual Mode: Generate both comprehensive CV and condensed resume from one document

• 🕙 Last-updated Date: Automatically generates last-updated date on every compilation

• 📚 Automated Bibliography: Generates a formatted publication list directly from your .bib file

• ⭐ Personal Name Bolding: Automatically bolds your name in publication lists for instant recognition

• ✏️ Author Role Annotations: Mark equal contribution (*) and corresponding authors (†) in publication lists

Philosophy

Goals: Aesthetic looking, "batteries-included" for popular features, easy to customize (to add your own features)

Non-Goals: Implement all possible fancy features (b/c increases complexity)

Create Your Own Repository

Want version control? Create your own GitHub repo instead of just using Overleaf:

1. Use template — Click "Use this template" button at the top of CleanCV repository to create your own copy

2. Edit your files:

   • Locally: Clone and edit with any LaTeX editor

     git clone https://github.com/yourusername/your-cv-repo.git
     # Edit main.tex and publications.bib, then compile

   • Overleaf: Edit in Overleaf by syncing your Github repo to Overleaf (guide) (premium required)

User Gallery

Researchers worldwide use CleanCV for their academic profiles.

See examples: Gilad Turok, Jane Doe, John Smith.

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Using CleanCV? We'd love to feature you! Open an issue with a link to your CV to be addded to our gallery.

Acknowledgments

CleanCV is heavily adapted from LaTeX CV templates by Bastian Rieck and Corey Stephan. Please see their work.