postdoc

American

[pohst-dok] / poʊstˈdɒk /

noun

a postdoctoral award or scholar.

adjective

postdoctoral.

Etymology

Origin of postdoc

First recorded in 1965–70; by shortening

Example Sentences

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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

Former postdoc Yu-Ming Tu and postdoc Cody Ritt also authors of the paper.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024

Daniel Lundberg PhD '24 and MIT postdoc Jimin Kim are the lead authors of the study, which appears in Nature Catalysis.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024

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