How to build a strong member profile: ORCID, Google Scholar, publications and CV

Your profile in the GEB Alumni Directory is often the first thing a batchmate, a student looking for advice, or a potential collaborator sees about you. A few minutes of work turns it from a name in a list into a useful professional page. This guide walks through the parts that matter most.

Start with the basics

Your account page shows a completion checklist with a progress ring. Work through it from top to bottom:

• A profile photo, so batchmates recognise you in the directory.
• Your current job title and organisation.
• Where you live now — country and city — so alumni nearby can find you.
• Your GEB, SUST session and batch, under Education.
• Your work experience: current and past positions.
• At least one professional link.
• Your skills or research interests, for example "genomics, PCR, bioinformatics".

Each item in the checklist links straight to the form that completes it.

Add your research identity

If you work in research, your identifiers do a lot of work for you. The profile has fields for your ORCID iD, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Scopus and Web of Science profiles, as well as LinkedIn, a personal or lab website, GitHub, Facebook and X. They appear as links on your public profile.

ORCID is especially useful. When you add your ORCID iD, the website can import the publications listed in your ORCID record automatically, so you do not have to type them again.

Keep your publication list tidy

Your publications appear as one editable list that combines entries you typed in with those fetched from ORCID. A few tips:

1. Add your ORCID iD first, then check what was imported before typing anything by hand.
2. If the same paper appears twice — once typed, once from ORCID — merge them.
3. Remove anything that should not be on your profile. Removing an ORCID work here only hides it on this website; your ORCID record itself is not changed, and hidden works can be restored later.
4. Keep your ORCID record up to date, and new work will follow.

Upload your CV

The Resume / CV section lets you upload a PDF. Keep it current and concise, and make sure it contains nothing you would not want to share, because visitors can download it from your public profile.

Choose your skills and interests carefully

Skills and research interests are short, comma-separated lists, so make each entry count. Use the terms people in your field would search for — specific techniques, organisms, diseases or methods — rather than very broad words. Plain language works best: readers range from first-year students to senior researchers.

Mind what is public

All member profiles are public in the Alumni Directory. Your phone number, address, NID or passport number and SUST registration number are never shown publicly, but everything else you add to your profile can be seen by visitors, so review it with that in mind.

Make it a habit

Update your profile whenever something changes: a new position, a new paper, a move to a new city. A current profile makes it easy for the GEB community to find you, and easy for you to help the next generation.