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
Recent Examples on the Web
The union represents teaching assistants, tutors, researchers and postdoctoral scholars.
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Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
Vayu Hill-Maini, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and lead author of the paper, sees his work as the logical 21st-century extension of that age-old domestication campaign.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2024
Lasater is an associate professor and Muir is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research.
—Karen B. Lasater and K. Jane Muir, STAT, 10 May 2024
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.
—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
Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
Vayu Hill-Maini, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and lead author of the paper, sees his work as the logical 21st-century extension of that age-old domestication campaign.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2024
Lasater is an associate professor and Muir is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research.
—Karen B. Lasater and K. Jane Muir, STAT, 10 May 2024
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.
—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
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“Postdoctoral.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postdoctoral. Accessed 24 May. 2024.
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