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
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Grant termination led to four job losses The professors used their $150,000 grant to hire a full-time postdoctoral research fellow to help build an online map that would be searchable by address and include deed documents.
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Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 22 July 2025
After jumping to an early lead and claiming the most points in the first two episodes, Brendan Talwar, a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, and his teammate, marine biologist Chris Malinowski, kept the momentum going to the very end.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, Mercury News, 22 July 2025
Yakovenko is a postdoctoral researcher of environmental geosciences at the university.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 30 July 2025
In a recent study, a team at my lab led by Tristan Yates, now a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, used this method to discover that the infant hippocampus can store memories beginning around one year of age.
—Nick Turk-Browne, Scientific American, 28 July 2025
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Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 22 July 2025
After jumping to an early lead and claiming the most points in the first two episodes, Brendan Talwar, a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, and his teammate, marine biologist Chris Malinowski, kept the momentum going to the very end.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, Mercury News, 22 July 2025
Yakovenko is a postdoctoral researcher of environmental geosciences at the university.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 30 July 2025
In a recent study, a team at my lab led by Tristan Yates, now a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, used this method to discover that the infant hippocampus can store memories beginning around one year of age.
—Nick Turk-Browne, Scientific American, 28 July 2025
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“Postdoctoral.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postdoctoral. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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