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postdoctoral

/pohst-dok-ter-uhl/US // poʊstˈdɒk tər əl //UK // (pəʊstˈdɒktərəl) //

博士后

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to study or professional work undertaken after the receipt of a doctorate: postdoctoral courses.

Examples

  • Natalie Schaworonkow, a postdoctoral fellow in Voytek’s lab, usually researches regular oscillations like alpha waves, “which are more beautiful than the aperiodic signal,” she said, making Voytek laugh in our shared Zoom call.

  • He was already working with Wolfson, then a postdoctoral researcher, on a topology project, and when he shared what he’d found in Arnold’s paper, Wolfson jumped in.

  • In the fall of 1999, while I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the first transit of a known planet—HD 209458b, a “hot Jupiter”—was announced.

  • So Currie tasked Li, then a postdoctoral student in Currie’s lab who’s now at Ningbo University in China, with removing it.

  • A group led by Lippman and postdoctoral fellow Choon-Tak Kwon has done exactly that with tomato plants.