assistant professor

American  

noun

1. a teacher in a college or university who ranks above an instructor and below an associate professor.

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assistant professor British  

noun

1. a university teacher lower in rank than an associate professor

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Other Word Forms

• assistant professorship
  noun

Etymology

Origin of assistant professor

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

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assistant professor

An agreement between the US and China to regulate AI development is "next to impossible", says Chang Jun Yan, an assistant professor with the military studies programme at Singapore's S Rajaratnam School of International Studies.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

"Our study represents a major advance in understanding what goes wrong in Alzheimer's disease," said Hansruedi Mathys, assistant professor of neurobiology at Pitt's Department of Neurobiology, who directed the Pitt arm of the study.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

Data-center development “appears to have little measurable impact” on local housing prices, according to a February research paper by Alex Priest, an assistant professor of finance at the University of Rochester.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

Changliu Liu, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, has a YouTube failbot compilation she likes to show students.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Ifemelu had met him a few times, an assistant professor of history who had lived in Congo as a child.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie