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Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Under Pressure In 2018, Yong-Jae Kim was a postdoc at the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) studying how room-temperature water turns to ice under extreme pressure.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 27 Apr. 2026
Nara Parameswaran, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
My postdoc prospects after finishing a doctorate in physics at Harvard were in Europe.
—Vineer Bhansali, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Graduate students are being lost, postdocs are not being hired, high-quality research is being terminated.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Under Pressure In 2018, Yong-Jae Kim was a postdoc at the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) studying how room-temperature water turns to ice under extreme pressure.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
The long-term implications of these barriers could be grim, especially because more than half of the country’s postdoc scholars in science, technology, engineering and math, and around a third of the country’s graduate students, are visa holders.
—Nara Parameswaran, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
My postdoc prospects after finishing a doctorate in physics at Harvard were in Europe.
—Vineer Bhansali, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Postdoc.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postdoc. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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