postdoctoral

American  

[pohst-dok-ter-uhl] / poʊstˈdɒk tər əl /

adjective

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

   postdoctoral courses.

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postdoctoral British  

/ pəʊstˈdɒktərəl /

adjective

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

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Etymology

Origin of postdoctoral

1935–40; post- + doctoral ( def. )

Example Sentences

"This is a novel idea in planetary science, inspired by a well-understood idea in Earth science," said Austin Green, lead author and postdoctoral researcher at Virginia Tech.

From Science Daily

“What we’re talking about is a much older, evolutionary, more animalistic way of understanding the social world,” says Dr. Eliska Prochazkova, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cognitive Psychology Unit of Leiden University in the Netherlands.

From The Wall Street Journal

Wright says the project continued thanks to the persistence of postdoctoral fellow Xuefei Chen.

From Science Daily

Professor Lutz and Dr. Milton Aguilar, a postdoctoral researcher at the same institute, describe the physics behind this surprising result in their Science Advances paper.

From Science Daily

"Dark matter forms relatively diffuse clumps which are still much denser than the average density of the universe," says Gurian, a Perimeter postdoctoral fellow and co-author of the study.

From Science Daily