postdoctoral
adjective
post·doc·tor·al
ˌpōs(t)-ˈdäk-t(ə-)rəl 
ˈpōst-ˌdäk-
variants
or less commonly postdoctorate
ˌpōs(t)-ˈdäk-t(ə-)rət
ˈpōst-ˌdäk-
: being beyond the doctoral level:
a
: of or relating to advanced academic or professional work beyond a doctor's degree
a postdoctoral fellowship
b
: engaged in such work
postdoctoral scholars
Examples of postdoctoral in a Sentence
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Kristensen is defending her thesis this week and is set to begin postdoctoral research at the university, in the department of veterinary and animal sciences.
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Helen Branswell, STAT, 6 May 2024
Moreno, then a postdoctoral fellow at Uppsala University in Sweden, was surprised and pleased to hear that someone at NASA was interested in his work.
—Leila Sloman, WIRED, 5 May 2024
Anthony Vaccaro is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Southern California’s psychology department.
—Anthony Vaccaro, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
According to the National Institutes of Health, the number of postdoctoral fellows supported by NIH grants has been steadily falling for more than 20 years, with a significant dip after 2020.
—Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
As a postdoctoral researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Nicole Gaudelli was the co-inventor of a breakthrough in gene editing: the ability to target a single misspelling in DNA code.
—Maggie McGrath, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Rights & Permissions Michelle S. Livings is a postdoctoral research associate the Center for Research on Child and Family Wellbeing at Princeton University.
—Michelle S. Livings, Scientific American, 18 Dec. 2023
That changed in 2021, when the skull caught the eye of Mann, a postdoctoral fellow at the time, who was sifting through the Texas collection to see whether any notable specimens had been overlooked.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
The study was designed to provide more comprehensive data about homicide rates among Black women and fill in the gaps in the existing literature, said Bernadine Waller, the paper’s lead author and a postdoctoral psychiatry research fellow at the Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center.
—Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2024
Helen Branswell, STAT, 6 May 2024
Moreno, then a postdoctoral fellow at Uppsala University in Sweden, was surprised and pleased to hear that someone at NASA was interested in his work.
—Leila Sloman, WIRED, 5 May 2024
Anthony Vaccaro is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Southern California’s psychology department.
—Anthony Vaccaro, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
According to the National Institutes of Health, the number of postdoctoral fellows supported by NIH grants has been steadily falling for more than 20 years, with a significant dip after 2020.
—Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
As a postdoctoral researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Nicole Gaudelli was the co-inventor of a breakthrough in gene editing: the ability to target a single misspelling in DNA code.
—Maggie McGrath, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Rights & Permissions Michelle S. Livings is a postdoctoral research associate the Center for Research on Child and Family Wellbeing at Princeton University.
—Michelle S. Livings, Scientific American, 18 Dec. 2023
That changed in 2021, when the skull caught the eye of Mann, a postdoctoral fellow at the time, who was sifting through the Texas collection to see whether any notable specimens had been overlooked.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
The study was designed to provide more comprehensive data about homicide rates among Black women and fill in the gaps in the existing literature, said Bernadine Waller, the paper’s lead author and a postdoctoral psychiatry research fellow at the Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center.
—Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2024
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“Postdoctoral.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postdoctoral. Accessed 14 May. 2024.
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