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postdoctoral

a. After receiving a doctorate; especially of academic research or study beyond the level of a doctoral degree.

Usage examples of "postdoctoral".

Its full name is Dibutyl Catecholandrogen, and it first came to my attention during my postdoctoral research at Duke.

I was in my first year of postdoctoral study, bubbling with the ferment of ideas on the causes of apoptosis that led, five years later and via a circuitous route that I could never have imagined in advance, to a full understanding of cell death and thence to telomod therapy.

But the younger Wiener, though still years shy of his fellow postdoctoral students, enjoyed the spirited discussions, held his own in them, and the interplay helped greatly to improve his social skills.

I had learned from Morrison that he was going on leave from Duke to spend a year at the Institute for Advanced Study, and I knew that Aspinwall would also be there, as a postdoctoral fellow.

He had done postdoctoral work in neurophysiology, was a lecturer on antisocial personality disorder, and was the director of the New York Forensic Mental Health Group.

Kyle Kirkland, a postdoctoral scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, dismisses chemical memory and describes what scientists today think about the way memories are recorded in the brain.

A 1998 study by the National Science Foundation found that over 50 percent of the postdoctoral students at MIT and Stanford University were not U.

At Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, more than half of the postdoctoral scientists and engineers come from outside the United States.

She had gone to MIT as a postdoctoral fellow to do research with Linden Polk.

He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution for one year.

She had a special fondness for the outfringers, even flirted with the Glibsters when we were both doing our postdoctoral work.

Two not specifically mentioned there I would like to pay special tribute to: Arun Sinha, who joined me first as technician, later as student and then postdoctoral colleague, and was with me through all the early years at Imperial College and the Open University.