mutschler.eu is the open-source Hugo codebase that powers the academic personal website of Willi Mutschler, an assistant professor of international macroeconomics at the University of Tübingen. The repository uses the Wowchemy academic theme (now distributed as Hugo Blox) and is published live at https://mutschler.eu, offering a concrete reference for building a research-oriented academic site with Hugo.
What is mutschler.eu?
mutschler.eu is a GitHub repository containing the complete source code for a personal academic website. It takes Hugo Markdown content files and configuration as input, and generates a static website with sections for research, teaching, and professional background. The site is built with the Hugo static site generator and the Wowchemy academic theme, a popular choice for academics because it provides ready-made layouts for bibliographies and course pages. The repository belongs to Willi Mutschler, who also serves as a core developer of the Dynare macroeconomic modeling software.
Key features
- Academic theme integration — Uses the Wowchemy academic theme, which supplies publication and teaching page archetypes so content can be added without custom HTML.
- Research output listing — The site shows research focused on geoeconomics, war effects, and rare-disaster modeling, with links to the American Economic Review and other journals.
- Publicly available courses — Links to two complete GitHub course repositories: Computational Macroeconomics and Quantitative Macroeconomics, including slides and problem sets.
- Video tutorials — The site embeds or links to video tutorial playlists hosted on Willi Mutschler's YouTube channel.
- Professional profile pages — Includes a biography, leave notice, contact email, and portrait photo.
- Social and scholarly profiles — Integrates links to GitHub, Google Scholar, IDEAS/RePEc, ResearchGate, and YouTube.
- Dynare-related content — Provides teaching materials for the Dynare toolbox as part of the author's maintainer role.
Who is mutschler.eu for?
- Economics professors and researchers — who need a clean, publication-first website that can list journal articles and working papers.
- PhD students in macroeconomics — who want a template with clear sections for research and teaching experience.
- Hugo users — who want to inspect a production example of the Wowchemy theme, including configuration details and content organization.
- Open-source educators — who want to see how a university instructor packages and shares entire course repositories and video playlists.
Can anyone reuse this repository?
The repository is public on GitHub under the wmutschl/mutschler.eu namespace. While it is specifically the source for the owner's site, the theme and structure are reusable for other academic websites; however, personal content such as photos, bio text, and research entries must be replaced.
FAQ
Is mutschler.eu an official template?
mutschler.eu is the personal website source code of an individual professor, not a packaged template released for general use. However, because it is public and uses the popular Wowchemy academic theme, it serves as a useful reference implementation for building similar academic sites.
What static site generator does it use?
The website is built with Hugo, a fast static site generator, combined with the Wowchemy academic theme (now known as Hugo Blox). This combination produces a lightweight, deployable site that can be hosted on any static hosting service.
Can I fork the repository to build my own academic site?
Yes, the repository is public on GitHub, so you can fork it. You will need to replace personal content, images, and research entries, and update the configuration to match your own information.
Does the site include course materials?
Yes, it links to two comprehensive GitHub repositories for the courses Computational Macroeconomics and Quantitative Macroeconomics, which include lecture slides, code examples, and problem sets.
