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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Farias is a postdoctoral associate at the Miller School of Medicine at UM and Play it Forward’s treasurer.
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Christina Mayo, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
Mona Hemmati, a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University who specializes in climate physics, said the public can expect future delays and cancellations in mass transit based on extreme weather caused by climate change.
—Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 22 June 2024
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SARS-CoV-2 is still a new virus that’s evolving quickly, says Ilan Rubin, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics.
—Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 12 June 2024
Their research on mice, led by Stanford University postdoctoral scholar Evan O’Brien, was published today in Nature.
—Veronica Roseborough, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024
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Christina Mayo, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
Mona Hemmati, a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University who specializes in climate physics, said the public can expect future delays and cancellations in mass transit based on extreme weather caused by climate change.
—Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 22 June 2024
Read More: The Isolation of Having Long COVID as Society Moves On
SARS-CoV-2 is still a new virus that’s evolving quickly, says Ilan Rubin, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics.
—Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 12 June 2024
Their research on mice, led by Stanford University postdoctoral scholar Evan O’Brien, was published today in Nature.
—Veronica Roseborough, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024
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“Postdoctoral.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postdoctoral. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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