jdzucker.github.io

Personal academic portfolio website for Jean-Daniel Zucker, Research Director (DRCE) at IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) and Deputy Director of the UMI UMMISCO laboratory.

Tech Stack

• Hand-written static site — plain HTML / CSS / vanilla JS, no build step
• Hosting: GitHub Pages
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions

The site is fully static: the pages are authored by hand and published as-is. There is no static-site generator.

Project Structure

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├── index.html          # French homepage (default)
├── en/index.html       # English homepage
├── zh/index.html       # Chinese (Traditional) homepage
├── style.css           # Shared styles (FR/EN); ZH has its own inline theme
├── script.js           # Publications loader, i18n strings, dark mode, chart
├── favicon.svg
├── img/                # Photo, logos, book covers
├── static/             # citation_data.json (refreshed by CI)
├── recent_pubs.json    # Hand-curated recent publications
├── assets/scripts/     # Google Scholar citation fetcher
└── .github/workflows/  # CI/CD automation

Local Development

No tooling required — open index.html in a browser, or serve the folder:

python3 -m http.server 8000
# then visit http://localhost:8000/

Automated Features

Deployment

On every push to main, gh-pages.yml copies the static files into _site/ and publishes them to GitHub Pages. The build copies: the three index.html pages, style.css, script.js, favicon.svg, static/citation_data.json, recent_pubs.json and img/.

Citation Data Updates

Google Scholar citation data is fetched every Sunday via fetch_citation_data.yml. The script fetch_citation_data.py scrapes the statistics and writes them to static/citation_data.json, which the pages load at runtime (alongside recent_pubs.json).

License

Content © Jean-Daniel Zucker.