postdoctoral
adjective
post·doc·tor·al
ˌpōs(t)-ˈdäk-t(ə-)rəl 
ˈpōst-ˌdäk-
variants
or less commonly postdoctorate
ˌpōs(t)-ˈdäk-t(ə-)rət
ˈpōst-ˌdäk-
: being beyond the doctoral level:
a
: of or relating to advanced academic or professional work beyond a doctor's degree
a postdoctoral fellowship
b
: engaged in such work
postdoctoral scholars
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Graduate students Brian Elder and Jared Anklam, postdoctoral associates Jian Teng and Saebom Lee, and other collaborators contributed to the research.
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
Prior to Orbbec, Huang was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology research center.
—Zinnia Lee, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Last week at the Europlanet Science Congress–Division for Planetary Sciences (EPSC–DPS) meeting in Helsinki, Finland, Elise Knutsen, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo, reported a second detection and described new tools her team developed to forecast when auroras will appear.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Undergraduate students, graduate students seeking a doctorate, and postdoctoral associates (those who have already received a doctorate) work together in teams to develop new biomedical technologies.
—Brendan Harley, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2025
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
Prior to Orbbec, Huang was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology research center.
—Zinnia Lee, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Last week at the Europlanet Science Congress–Division for Planetary Sciences (EPSC–DPS) meeting in Helsinki, Finland, Elise Knutsen, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo, reported a second detection and described new tools her team developed to forecast when auroras will appear.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Undergraduate students, graduate students seeking a doctorate, and postdoctoral associates (those who have already received a doctorate) work together in teams to develop new biomedical technologies.
—Brendan Harley, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for postdoctoral
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“Postdoctoral.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postdoctoral. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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