postdoc
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of postdoc
First recorded in 1965–70; by shortening
Example Sentences
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As a graduate student he joined the lab of Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa, where he was paired with a postdoc fellow named Xu Liu.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2025
"Radium is naturally radioactive, with a short lifetime and we can currently only produce radium monofluoride molecules in tiny quantities," says study lead author Shane Wilkins, a former postdoc at MIT.
From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2025
"We want to expand the design space of traditional cross-flow filtration with new knowledge from the manta ray," says lead author and MIT postdoc Xinyu Mao PhD '24.
From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024
To understand how cell density was exerting these effects, co-first author Josquin Courte, a postdoc in the Morsut Lab, conducted a series of experiments that yielded a surprising discovery.
From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024
The researchers led by the two and their colleague Daniel Castellano Castillo, a former postdoc in von Meyenn's group, looked for the molecular causes of the yo-yo effect in mice.
From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2024
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