How to Use postdoc in a Sentence

postdoc

1 of 2 noun

• Among them were Yau and his then-postdoc, Jun Yin.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2025
• The reason for the time limit is that a postdoc in math or physics usually lasts two years.
  — Spyridon Michalakis, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
• The cartilage began to bubble, which the postdoc thought was from heat.
  — Meghie Rodrigues, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2025
• Then, in 2014, one of his postdocs told him about a strange occurrence in the lab.
  — Sonia Shah, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2023
• In Villa’s lab, Lindsey Young, a postdoc, showed me a dish of what looked like tiny holes punched out of tinfoil.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
• In the middle of the room, Dan Villareal, a linguistics postdoc, stood up.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
• Scott Boyken, a former postdoc in Baker’s lab, has designed, from scratch, proteins with tiny moving parts.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2020
• Professors, graduate students and postdocs have joined forces to reach as many people as possible.
  — Adam Tamburin, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2017
• My postdoc prospects after finishing a doctorate in physics at Harvard were in Europe.
  — Vineer Bhansali, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• More than 1,100 postdocs staff Northwestern’s network of research labs.
  — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
• The mystery of how this parasite manages the asymmetric expression of its genetic manual has been a cold case in the back of my mind since my days as a postdoc.
  — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
• In fact, Sontheimer's husband, a postdoc named Ryan Taft, happened to be a bioscientist.
  — Wired, 30 Aug. 2019
• One factor in particular, isolated from rats by a Canadian postdoc, seemed to be quite powerful.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2015
• The challenge is also reflected in the quality of postdoc applications.
  — Thomas Kariuki, Quartz Africa, 31 Aug. 2019
• Meanwhile, his graduate and postdoc work revolved around more traditional areas of computing.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Feb. 2023
• Ewing bequeathed the samples to his former postdoc, Peter Burns, then a professor at Notre Dame.
  — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 11 June 2018
• Oxford postdoc Jack Matthews, the youngest member of Liu’s research group, explained that this was because, this far in the past, the lines between the kingdoms grow fuzzy.
  — Robert Moor, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2016
• Graduate students are being lost, postdocs are not being hired, high-quality research is being terminated.
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
• That should be a sobering reminder as the ultra-safe human-cell-line project gets off the ground, says Nili Ostrov, a postdoc in Church’s lab who is leading the research.
  — Elie Dolgin, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
• As a postdoc at the Koch Institute in 2017, Garg was looking at gene regulation in cancer.
  — Andrew Joseph and Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 15 Nov. 2021
• Just over half of scientists in our survey reported that international students or postdocs have expressed concerns to them about deportation.
  — Eric Welch, The Conversation, 19 May 2026
• Just over half of scientists in our survey reported that international students or postdocs have expressed concerns to them about deportation.
  — Eric Welch, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
• Students, postdocs, and collaborators can now ask questions, test ideas quickly, and explore new chemical foundations without writing code.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2025
• Her employees included staff scientists, postdocs and graduate students.
  — Martha Bebinger, NPR, 9 Dec. 2025
• Because even if step one worked, Gaudelli would still have to Frankenstein it together with the remaining components of her base editor—a high risk bet that could leave her with nothing to show for her postdoc.
  — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 12 June 2018
• Two decades later, when Peleg and her postdoc, the physicist Raphaël Sarfati, set out to collect firefly data, better technology was available.
  — Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2022
• The team included four researchers and 32-year-old Albanian postdoc Eriona Hysolli.
  — David Ewing Duncan, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
• When Amodei was still a postdoc at Stanford, the two lived together in a group house that also included Dario’s sister, Daniela, spending late nights talking about physics.
  — Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026
• The trial had evaluated the efficacy of the poliovirus vaccine developed by Jonas Salk, a former postdoc in Francis’s lab.
  — Howard Markel, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• Cristina Villa del Campo, a senior postdoc in the Torres lab, tested for adult competition in the mouse heart by introducing winner cardiac cells at eight to ten weeks of age.
  — Kendall Powell, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2020

postdoc

2 of 2 adjective

• Weifeng Chen, a postdoc working elsewhere in the lab, raced over.
  — Beryl Lieff Benderly, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2015
• So Kanwisher, along with her postdoc Katharina Dobs and other colleagues, turned to deep nets for help.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2020
• Moved out of the house in Eugene and headed to San Francisco, where my parents had gotten postdoc positions.
  — Rachel Kushner, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2021
• One of those is that institutions must match their postdoc stipend to NRSA levels, which in reality are meant to be minimum salaries.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 6 June 2023
• To find out, her postdoc Oliver Maddocks methodically removed various amino acids from cancer cells’ culture medium.
  — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 1 Apr. 2021
• Within House’s group, postdoc researchers are studying sediments left by ancient organisms in Western Australia.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
• Gorbunova was able to work with her university to ensure the teams of undergrad students who normally take care of the naked mole rats were replaced by postdoc students and technicians using protective gear and working in shifts.
  — Chris Wright, Wired, 8 June 2020
• In the hierarchy of memory science, Karim Nader hardly ranked — a lowly postdoc, only 33 years old, and not even a memory researcher.
  — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2010
• Additionally, there are fewer accomplished scientists that can take up postdoc positions and fewer institutions with the capacity to host postdoc trainees.
  — Thomas Kariuki, Quartz Africa, 31 Aug. 2019
• But because postdoc salaries are funded by a variety of mechanisms, co-author Amir Behbahani acknowledges, finding money to extend everyone’s salary would be challenging.
  — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 6 Oct. 2020
• And in January, a study led by his postdoc Shane Liddelow made a giant step forward in explaining how astrocytes are transformed into destructive A1s.
  — Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2017
• To see whether the girdle might contain evidence for its use, Sarah Fiddyment, a postdoc studying ancient proteins at the University of Cambridge, and her colleagues examined it.
  — Andrew Curry, Science | AAAS, 9 Mar. 2021
• 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