Eduard Heijkoop — Academic Portfolio

Personal portfolio site built with Jekyll and the Minimal Mistakes theme. Features blog posts, geospatial portfolio pages with interactive Folium maps, and an about page.

🌐 Live site: https://eduardheijkoop.github.io

Structure

.
├── _config.yml              # Main Jekyll configuration
├── index.html               # Homepage with feature row
├── Gemfile                  # Ruby dependencies
├── _pages/
│   ├── about.md             # About me page
│   ├── portfolio.md         # Portfolio listing
│   └── blog.md              # Blog listing
├── _portfolio/              # Portfolio project pages
│   ├── icesat2-coastal-dem.md
│   ├── sea-level-rise-impact.md
│   └── vertical-land-motion.md
├── _posts/                  # Blog posts
│   ├── 2025-03-15-icesat2-getting-started.md
│   ├── 2025-01-20-dem-bias-coastal.md
│   └── 2024-11-05-folium-coastal-maps.md
├── _data/
│   └── navigation.yml       # Site navigation
├── assets/
│   ├── css/custom.css       # Style overrides
│   ├── images/              # → Add your photos here
│   └── maps/                # Interactive Folium map HTML files
│       ├── icesat2_coverage.html
│       ├── slr_impact.html
│       └── vlm_map.html
└── .github/workflows/
    └── deploy.yml           # Auto-deploy to GitHub Pages

Deployment (First Time)

Option A: GitHub Pages (Recommended)

Create a repo named EduardHeijkoop.github.io on GitHub

Clone and push:

git clone https://github.com/EduardHeijkoop/EduardHeijkoop.github.io
# Copy all these files into it
git add .
git commit -m "Initial portfolio"
git push origin main

Enable GitHub Pages:
- Go to repo Settings → Pages
- Source: GitHub Actions
- The deploy.yml workflow handles everything automatically
Your site is live at https://eduardheijkoop.github.io within ~2 minutes.

Option B: Local Preview

# Install Ruby 3.x, then:
bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve --livereload
# Open http://localhost:4000

Customization Checklist

Avatar: Add assets/images/avatar.jpg (your photo, ~400×400px)
Header images: Add assets/images/header-coastal.jpg and feature images
_config.yml: Update email, LinkedIn, Google Scholar URLs
About page: Update publications list with real DOIs
Portfolio projects: Add your actual GitHub repo links
Blog posts: Add more posts or update dates/content

Adding a New Portfolio Project

Create _portfolio/my-project.md:

---
title: "My Project Title"
excerpt: "One-line description shown in the grid."
header:
  teaser: /assets/images/my-project-thumb.jpg
tags:
  - ICESat-2
  - Python
---

Project content in Markdown...

<!-- Embed a Folium map: -->
<iframe src="/assets/maps/my_map.html" width="100%" height="500" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Adding a New Blog Post

Create _posts/YYYY-MM-DD-post-slug.md:

---
title: "Post Title"
date: 2025-06-01
categories:
  - Tutorial
tags:
  - Python
  - Remote Sensing
excerpt: "Short description for the listing page."
---

Post content...

Generating Real Folium Maps

Replace the demo HTML files in assets/maps/ with outputs from your Python scripts:

import folium
# ... build your map ...
m.save('assets/maps/my_map.html')

Then commit and push — the map will appear in the portfolio page.

Theme

Minimal Mistakes by Michael Rose, MIT License.
Skin: dark — change in _config.yml (minimal_mistakes_skin) to "default", "air", "aqua", "neon", etc.

FilesExpand file tree

README.md

Latest commit

History