asterios.katsifodimos.com

Personal academic website for Asterios Katsifodimos, Assistant Professor at TU Delft.

Built with Jekyll and hosted via GitHub Pages.

Tech stack

• Jekyll — static site generator (via github-pages gem)
• Bootstrap 5.3.3 — layout and responsive grid (CDN)
• Font Awesome 6.7.2 — icons (CDN)
• Montserrat / Roboto — fonts (Google Fonts CDN)
• css/theme.css — all custom styles (single file, no preprocessor)
• css/syntax.css — code block syntax highlighting (Rouge)

Project structure

_layouts/
  default.html        # single shared layout (navbar, footer)
_config.yml           # site name, URL, markdown/highlighter settings
index.md              # home page (hero, awards, people)
publications/         # research & publications page
teaching/             # courses and thesis supervision
service/              # community service
css/
  theme.css           # custom styles
  syntax.css          # syntax highlighting
assets/               # images (profile photo, people portraits)
Gemfile               # Ruby dependencies

Local development

Prerequisites

Ruby and Bundler must be installed. On macOS:

brew install ruby
gem install bundler

Setup

bundle install

Serve locally

bundle exec jekyll serve

The site is available at http://localhost:4000. Jekyll watches for file changes and rebuilds automatically.

Build (static output)

bundle exec jekyll build

Output is written to _site/.

Deployment

The site is deployed automatically by GitHub Pages on every push to the master branch. No manual build step is needed — GitHub Pages runs Jekyll server-side.

Editing content

Page	File
Home (bio, awards, people)	index.md
Publications	publications/index.md
Teaching	teaching/index.html
Service	service/index.md
Navbar / footer	_layouts/default.html
Styles	css/theme.css
Site config (URL, name)	_config.yml