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

Administrators said they were evaluating grants one-by-one to find ways to provide stop-gap funding, and working to ensure graduate and postdoctoral student education and research — often paid for by federal grants — went uninterrupted.

From Los Angeles Times

The implications of this study are that “earthquakes never come back exactly the same way,” Solene L. Antoine, a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech and the study’s lead author, said in an interview.

From Los Angeles Times

Doctoral and postdoctoral students, whose tuition and living expenses are often funded by grants in exchange for lab work, are rushing to speed up their graduation plans before stipends become depleted.

From Los Angeles Times

Sydney Campbell, a pancreatic cancer researcher and postdoctoral scholar at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, said her work — which aims to understand how diet affects the disease — is continuing for now.

From Los Angeles Times

But there is one big reason driving the outbreak: low vaccination rates, said Janna Shapiro, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto's Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases.

From BBC