postdoctoral

[ pohst-dok-ter-uhl ]

adjective

1. of or relating to study or professional work undertaken after the receipt of a doctorate:

   postdoctoral courses.

postdoctoral

/ pəʊstˈdɒktərəl /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or designating studies, research, or professional work above the level of a doctorate

Word History and Origins

Origin of postdoctoral¹

1935–40; post- + doctoral ( def )

Example Sentences

Natalie Schaworonkow, a postdoctoral fellow in Voytek’s lab, usually researches regular oscillations like alpha waves, “which are more beautiful than the aperiodic signal,” she said, making Voytek laugh in our shared Zoom call.

From Quanta Magazine

He was already working with Wolfson, then a postdoctoral researcher, on a topology project, and when he shared what he’d found in Arnold’s paper, Wolfson jumped in.

From Quanta Magazine

In the fall of 1999, while I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the first transit of a known planet—HD 209458b, a “hot Jupiter”—was announced.

From MIT Technology Review

So Currie tasked Li, then a postdoctoral student in Currie’s lab who’s now at Ningbo University in China, with removing it.

From Science News

A group led by Lippman and postdoctoral fellow Choon-Tak Kwon has done exactly that with tomato plants.

From Nautilus