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

The Ohio ruling is the latest in a pattern, says Todd Phillips, an assistant professor of law at Georgia State and expert on financial regulation.

From Barron's

An assistant professor in data visualization at Linköping University in Sweden, Besançon began investigating COVID-related research after noticing hundreds of papers were published as peer reviewed only a day after being submitted.

From Salon

“I don’t think they need to increase interest rates,” said Vania Stavrakeva, an assistant professor of economics at London Business School.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dr Michael Becker, assistant professor of law at Trinity College Dublin, told BBC Verify that deliberate strikes on civilian sites are illegal under international law, unless those sites are being used for military purposes.

From BBC

Meanwhile, Lina Begdache is a research assistant professor at Binghamton University in New York who studies the interaction between food, mood and sleep.

From BBC