Word info Synonyms

postdoc

Noun

Meaning

a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree

a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Hypernyms

Examples

The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you. Eric Allin Cornell

Fuks, who spoke to The Times of Israel from Cambridge where he will shortly begin a postdoc, completed the study out of Bar-Ilan University Prof. Ehud Weiss’s archaeobotany lab. Source: Internet

Kit, by then, is living in a one of those "postgrad shoe boxes" and toiling night and day as a postdoc researcher in the high-pressure lab of Dr. Lena Severin. Source: Internet

“I was lucky in that my postdoc advisor is married to a woman who was pregnant during her graduate and postdoc studies, and continued on to be a successful professor,” said Bergonzo. Source: Internet

I was wondering what type of questions an applicant should expect from a Skype interview for a postdoc position (in theoretical physics). Source: Internet

Would a retired researcher mentor a postdoc with his/her own external funding? Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms