Make a CV for a grant application

Make an NIH Biographical Sketch or an ERC Part B1 CV from your Sifa profile. Download it as a PDF or as Typst source.

A funder often asks for your CV in its own format. Sifa ID makes two of these formats from your profile:

The NIH Biographical Sketch, for the US National Institutes of Health.
The ERC Part B1 CV, for the European Research Council.

You pick the publications, talks, and honors to show. Then you download a PDF or the Typst source. The feature is free.

Make a funder CV from your Sifa profile in 30 seconds.

Video description

A silent screen recording with music. The export page shows the card A CV for a grant application. The user selects Choose items. The NIH Biographical Sketch form shows a list of publications, and each publication has three options: Leave out, Closely related, and Other significant. The user sets the options, then changes the format to ERC Part B1 CV. The user selects Download PDF. The ERC PDF opens, and the video moves to the sections that show To fill in. Then the Typst source shows, and the user types text into a To fill in section. The video ends on sifa.id with the text Free, like all our exports, and a note that the NIH output is a draft for SciENcv.

Make the CV

Open your export page at sifa.id/settings/export.
On the card A CV for a grant application, select Choose items.
Select the format: NIH Biographical Sketch or ERC Part B1 CV.
Pick the items to show. The sections below give the limits.
Select Download PDF or Download Typst source.

You can also go directly to sifa.id/settings/export/funder.

The form starts with your most recent publications and honors, up to each limit. Talks are on the list, but the form does not select them for you. Hidden items are not on the list and are not in the CV.

If you select more items than a section permits, Sifa does not make the CV. The form shows the section with too many items and keeps your other choices. Remove some items. Then try again.

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NIH Biographical Sketch

The NIH format follows the NIH Common Form and the NIH Biographical Sketch Supplement. These are the forms for applications due on or after 25 January 2026. The PDF uses US Letter paper.

NIH accepts only the certified biographical sketch that you make in SciENcv. Do not send the Sifa PDF to NIH. Use it as a draft. Copy the entries into SciENcv. The PDF shows this note at the top.

Section	What you pick	Limit
Products closely related	Publications and talks closely related to the project	5
Other significant products	Other important publications and talks	5
Honors	Honors from your profile	15

For each publication or talk, select Closely related, Other significant, or Leave out.

Sifa fills these sections from your profile:

Your name, your ORCID iD, and the title of your current position.
Your organization and location.
Your education, in the section Professional preparation.
Your positions, in the section Appointments and positions.

To show your ORCID iD, add your ORCID account to your profile. See External accounts.

ERC Part B1 CV

The ERC format follows the section "Curriculum vitae and Track Record" in the ERC Part B1 template. The PDF uses A4 paper. ERC permits a maximum of 4 pages for this section. Sifa does not stop a longer CV, so check the page count before you submit.

Section	What you pick	Limit
Research achievements	Publications from your profile	10
Peer recognition	Honors and talks, for example prizes, fellowships, and invited talks	15

Sifa fills these sections from your profile:

Your name, your ORCID iD, and your website.
Your education.
Your current positions and your previous positions.
Your teaching and volunteer work, in the section Other contributions to the research community.

Sections marked "To fill in"

Some sections need text that your profile does not have. Sifa shows these sections as "To fill in", with a short note about what the funder asks for. A section from the list above also shows "To fill in" when your profile has no data for it.

Format	Sections that you write yourself
NIH	Personal statement, Contributions to science
ERC	Career breaks, a short note for each research output

For NIH, you also certify the sketch in SciENcv when you submit it. ERC also asks for the name of your PhD supervisor. Sifa does not keep this name, so add it in the Typst source. To fill in these sections, use the Typst source.

Fill in the Typst source

The Typst source is one .typ file. Your selected data is in the file, so you do not need other files.

Select Download Typst source.
Open the file in the Typst web editor or in a text editor.
Find each placeholder[...].
Replace it with your text.
Compile the file to a PDF.

To compile on your computer, run this command. Use the name of the file that you downloaded.

typst compile your-file.typ

The templates use the font Noto Sans, or Arial if Noto Sans is not available. For more about Typst, see Make a CV with Typst.

Limits

You can download 10 funder CVs each hour. A PDF and a Typst source count the same.
Sifa makes one PDF at a time for all users. If another PDF is in progress, try again after one minute.
If Sifa cannot make your PDF, download the Typst source and compile it yourself.
Organization accounts do not have this feature.

Sifa does not have grants, supervision, peer review, or memberships in your profile yet. Add these to the "To fill in" sections in the Typst source.