How to Use postdoctoral in a Sentence

postdoctoral

adjective
  • His term as a postdoctoral fellow was set to end in June.
    Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The result has been fires that are much larger and more intense than the forests are used to, said Wang, a postdoctoral scholar and lead author of the study.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
  • Back on the case Fast forward to 2017, when Keri Hoadley joined Martin's team as a postdoctoral fellow.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2020
  • So my [then] postdoctoral scholar Bertrand Coste found a cell line that responds to pressure this way.
    Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2021
  • But the project was put on hold for nearly a decade — until a new postdoctoral researcher who had played in a band joined Knight’s team and offered to decode it.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The group is made up of postdoctoral fellows, instructors and more.
    Tandra Smith | Tsmith@al.com, al, 2 Mar. 2021
  • One day, Eugenio Azpeitia, then a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Godin’s lab, remembered a gene that was known to change the size of the central zone of the meristem.
    New York Times, 8 July 2021
  • According to one of the fundraisers, the family of three had just moved to the area for Alexander to start a postdoctoral fellowship at ​​St.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
  • When the postdoctoral researcher Alexandra Vaccaro arrived at Rogulja’s lab in 2016, the two came up with a plan.
    Quanta Magazine, 4 June 2020
  • Blumwald, right, and postdoctoral researcher Akhilesh Yadav with their new rice.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Eckhart started out as a postdoctoral researcher and quickly rose up the ranks.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2022
  • Around that time, his term as a postdoctoral fellow expired.
    Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2022
  • That changed in 2021, when the skull caught the eye of Mann, a postdoctoral fellow at the time, who was sifting through the Texas collection to see whether any notable specimens had been overlooked.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Two of them, Thomas Myers and Luke Adebayo, are postdoctoral researchers on their first visit to the continent.
    Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Steel, who conducted the study as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, said the numbers were alarming.
    Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Rieke came to the University of Arizona in 1976 as a postdoctoral fellow.
    Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 15 Aug. 2022
  • And the two postdoctoral students who’d actually led the research had long since departed to run their own labs.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Ted Schwaba, a postdoctoral researcher in the psychology department at UT, was the lead author of the study.
    chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2021
  • Margaret Fleming, a postdoctoral researcher and a member of the team, said that the seeds' eagerness to germinate demonstrates their health.
    Cara Giaimo New York, Star Tribune, 5 June 2021
  • The postdoctoral job market had suddenly dried up, and many recent graduates were concerned about the gaps the pandemic would leave in their CVs.
    Maimuna S. Majumder, Wired, 18 June 2020
  • The lead author was Yvette Cendes, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Astrophysics.
    Elizabeth Howell, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Nicole Brackett, a postdoctoral researcher with Indoor Biotechnologies, sequenced the genes that make Fel d 1 in 50 domestic cats as well as some big and wild cats.
    Stacey Burling, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • Berger said that one of the central concerns is ensuring that postdoctoral training isn’t only feasible for the well-to-do.
    Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 6 June 2023
  • But in the meantime, Teruhiko Wakayama, one of Yanagimachi’s postdoctoral researchers in Hawaii, came up with another idea.
    Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022
  • The five-year agreements reached last week with the two bargaining units would raise salaries by some 20% for most postdoctoral students by next fall and boost pay and benefits for academic researchers.
    Shawn Hubler, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Dec. 2022
  • That same year, Pope secured a job as a postdoctoral research associate at Disney.
    IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2023
  • But Paul Bump, now a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, wanted to know what happens in species lacking such a group of cells.
    Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The first author of a scientific paper is often the student or postdoctoral researcher who does the majority of the lab work.
    Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Kretschmer, who’s now a postdoctoral researcher at the Simons Institute, was initially interested in the problem for reasons that had nothing to do with bit commitment.
    Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 30 June 2024
  • By lunch, he’s already revised the budget for a crucial government grant and met with postdoctoral fellows regarding work on various research projects.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2024

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