Update the authors' page

A new page of authors is created for the website.

_pkgdown.yml

@@ -6,20 +6,23 @@ home:
   probability of informed trading"
   links:
     - text: R paper on PINstimation
-      href: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4117946
+      href: https://journal.r-project.org/articles/RJ-2023-044/
 
 development:
   mode: auto
 
 authors:
   Montasser Ghachem:
-    href: package-authors.html
+    href: authors.html
   Oguz Ersan:
-    href: package-authors.html
+    href: authors.html
 
 template:
   bootstrap: 5
   bootswatch: yeti
+  assets:
+    include:
+      - "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.4/css/all.min.css"
   bslib:
     base_font: {google: "Open Sans"}
     heading_font: {google: "Roboto Slab"}
@@ -52,13 +55,14 @@ navbar:
       aria-label: Research
     authors:
       text: "Authors"
-      href: package-authors.html
+      href: authors.html
       aria-label: Authors
     github:
       text: "Github"
       icon: fa-github
       href: https://github.com/monty-se/
 
+
 reference:
 - title: Overview of the package
   desc: >

authors.md

@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+# Authors
+
+<style>
+
+.author-card {
+  font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
+  border: 1px solid #eaeaea;
+  border-radius: 10px;
+  box-shadow: 0 2px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
+  padding: 20px;
+  margin: 20px 0;
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+}
+
+.author-image {
+  border-radius: 50%;
+  margin-right: 20px;
+}
+
+.author-details {
+  flex: 1;
+}
+
+.author-name {
+  font-family: 'Roboto Slab', serif;
+  font-size: 1.5em;
+  font-weight: bold;
+  color: #2c3e50;
+}
+
+.author-role {
+  font-family: 'Roboto Slab', serif;
+  font-size: 1.2em;
+  color: #3498db;
+}
+
+.author-affiliation {
+  font-size: 1.1em;
+  color: #7f8c8d;
+}
+
+.author-description {
+  margin-top: 10px;
+  font-size: 1em;
+  color: #34495e;
+}
+
+.author-social a {
+  margin-right: 10px;
+  font-size: 1.2em;
+  color: #2c3e50;
+  text-decoration: none;
+}
+
+.author-social a:hover {
+  color: #3498db;
+}
+</style>
+
+<!-- ## Montasser Ghachem -->
+
+<div class="author-card">
+  <img src="man/figures/monty.jpg" alt="Montasser Ghachem" class="author-image" width="100">
+  <div class="author-details">
+  <div class="author-name">Montasser Ghachem</div>
+  <div class="author-role">PhD Candidate in Economics</div>
+  <div class="author-affiliation">Stockholm University</div>
+  <div class="author-description">Currently a PhD candidate in Economics at Stockholm University, his fields of interest are evolutionary game theory, and the evolution of cooperation. He holds a Master in Finance from Stockholm School of Economics, has been a visiting fellow of the Department of Mathematics at Harvard University, and has a strong interest in statistics and programming.</div>
+  <div class="author-social">
+  <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/montasser-ghachem-96a844/" target="_blank"><i class="fab fa-linkedin-in"></i></a>
+  <a href="https://github.com/monty-se" target="_blank"><i class="fab fa-github"></i></a>
+  <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i></a>
+  </div>
+  </div>
+  </div>
+
+<!-- ## Oguz Ersan -->
+
+<div class="author-card">
+  <img src="man/figures/oguz.jpg" alt="Oguz Ersan" class="author-image" width="100">
+  <div class="author-details">
+  <div class="author-name">Oguz Ersan</div>
+  <div class="author-role">Associate Professor in Finance</div>
+  <div class="author-affiliation">Kadir Has University</div>
+  <div class="author-description">Currently an associate professor in Finance at the Department of International Trade and Finance in Kadir Has University. His research interests center around behavioral finance and market microstructure, in particular, informed trading, and high-frequency trading. He has published several papers on market microstructure and developed the multilayer PIN model.</div>
+  <div class="author-social">
+  <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3135-5317" target="_blank"><i class="fab fa-orcid"></i></a>
+  <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=S19r3kEAAAAJ" target="_blank"><i class="fab fa-google"></i></a>
+  <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i></a>
+  </div>
+  </div>
+  </div>
+