postdoctoral

[pohst-dok-ter-uhl]

adjective

1. of or relating to study or professional work undertaken after the receipt of a doctorate.

   postdoctoral courses.

postdoctoral

/ pəʊstˈdɒktərəl /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or designating studies, research, or professional work above the level of a doctorate

Word History and Origins

Origin of postdoctoral¹

1935–40; post- + doctoral ( def. )

Example Sentences

"Cannabis use exists on a continuum," said first author Hayley Thorpe, Ph.D., a visiting scholar in Sanchez-Roige's lab and postdoctoral researcher at Western University.

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"Using physics we learned something new and interesting about an adaptive strategy in an organism," says Ranjiangshang Ran, co-lead author of the paper and a postdoctoral fellow in Burton's lab.

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The paper was co-authored by Caizhi Zhou and Haitao Qing, both Ph.D. students at NC State; and by Yinding Chi, a former Ph.D. student at NC State who is now a postdoctoral researcher at Penn.

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He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Martinis went on to do a postdoctoral fellowship in France, then returned stateside to Boulder, Colo., where he worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a U.S. government lab.

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