postdoc
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of postdoc
First recorded in 1965–70; by shortening
Example Sentences
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"Just as humans have to solve problems to survive, the same goes for other organisms," says Zheng, now a postdoc at the Allen Institute.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026
MIT postdoc Lindsay Volk is the lead author of the study, which appears in Nature Communications.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2026
Mehmet Girayhan Say, an MIT research scientist, and Sean You, a former MIT postdoc, are the paper's lead authors.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 13, 2026
MIT graduate student Constantine Tzouanas, former MIT postdoc Jessica Shay, and Massachusetts General Brigham postdoc Marc Sherman are the co-first authors of the paper.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 31, 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
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