postdoc
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of postdoc
First recorded in 1965–70; by shortening
Example Sentences
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MIT postdoc Lindsay Volk is the lead author of the study, which appears in Nature Communications.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026
Former MIT postdoc Mirco Friedrich is the lead author of the paper, which was published in Nature.
From Science Daily • Dec. 29, 2025
As a graduate student he joined the lab of Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa, where he was paired with a postdoc fellow named Xu Liu.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2025
"Andrea Terceros, a postdoc in my lab, created an elegant behavioral model allowed us to break open this problem in a new way," Rajasethupathy says.
From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025
To understand how cell density was exerting these effects, co-first author Josquin Courte, a postdoc in the Morsut Lab, conducted a series of experiments that yielded a surprising discovery.
From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024
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