PhD Application CV Template

For master's and PhD applications: research experience, thesis, scores and awards. Start from the full example below: change anything, and download a PDF that looks exactly like the preview. Free, with no signup and no watermark.

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Layout: One column
Photo: No
Paper: A4 (US Letter available)
Applicant tracking systems: ATS-friendly: one column, no photo
Download: PDF, free, no watermark

How to write a PhD Application CV

Put research experience and your thesis above jobs.
Add test scores (GRE, IELTS, TOEFL) and academic awards.
Name your supervisors, since committees know them.

PhD Application CV example

The full example this template opens with. Everyone in it is fictional; replace each part with your own details, and delete what does not apply.

Fatima Zahra

MSc in Computer Science

fatima.zahra@example.com · +212 661 555 204 · Rabat, Morocco · linkedin.com/in/fatimazahra · github.com/fzahra

Research Interests

MSc graduate applying for a PhD in natural language processing for low-resource languages. My master’s thesis built the first large Darija–French parallel corpus and was published at an ACL workshop.

Education

MSc in Computer Science (Data Science) — Mohammed V University, Rabat2023 – 2025

Mention Très Bien, ranked 1st of 64

Thesis: “Machine translation for Moroccan Darija with synthetic parallel data” · Supervisor: Prof. K. Benali

BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science — Mohammed V University, Rabat2020 – 2023

Mention Bien

Research Experience

Research Intern — Inria, ALMAnaCH team, ParisMar 2025 – Aug 2025

Trained multilingual models on 1.2M Darija sentences; BLEU +6.3 over the baseline
Supervised by Dr. B. Sagot

Publications

DarijaPara: a 400k-sentence Darija–French parallel corpus — Proceedings of the Workshop on Arabic NLP, ACL 20252025

Zahra F, Benali K.

Test Scores

IELTS Academic — Overall 8.0 (L 8.5, R 8.5, W 7.0, S 7.5)2025

GRE General — Quantitative 168, Verbal 158, Writing 4.52025

Awards

Excellence Scholarship — Moroccan Ministry of Higher Education2023

Technical Skills

Python · PyTorch · Hugging Face Transformers · LaTeX · Linux & HPC clusters

Languages

Arabic (Native) · French (C2) · English (C1)

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How it works

Open the example

Press “Use this template” and the PhD Application CV example opens in the editor, with the preview beside it.

Make it yours

Type over each part, delete what you do not need and add sections. Bold, italic and underline work in every description.

Download the PDF

The file is exactly the preview, with real text that applicant tracking systems can read.

Frequently asked questions

Is this PhD Application CV template free?

Yes. Editing, every design and the PDF download are free, with no signup, no watermark and no payment step at the end.

Do I have to use the example?

No. “Use this template” opens the example ready to edit; “Start empty” keeps the PhD Application CV design with empty fields. Either way, every section can be renamed, hidden, reordered or removed.

Can I switch to another design later?

Yes. Your details stay exactly as they are when you switch to any of the other 53 CV types, and colour, font, text size and paper size can be changed at any time.

Where is my CV kept?

On this computer only, so it is still there when you come back. It is never sent to us or stored on a server. “Save a copy” makes a file you can open on another computer.

Good to know: Text in Latin-alphabet languages only (English, Vietnamese and European languages); Bangla, Devanagari, Arabic and CJK characters are not supported yet. The download is a PDF; there is no Word version. Your details are kept on this computer until you remove them.

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