post doc
2
5.6
- noun
- /ˈpoʊst dɑk/
- Specialized
:
beca postdoctoral
- a post doc position
- post-doc research
- post-doc years
Examples
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When I got my degree in 1997, I started looking around for a post-doc position.
Fiction book (2000) -
Now let's say you've got through your post doc and you start applying for your permanent position.
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After CMU, I did a post-doc at MIT.
Blog text (20) -
She came up to Owens Valley to do her post-doc about six months after you left.
Fiction book (1997) -
I'm a post-doc studying olfaction and taste in Alan Carleton's lab at the University of Geneva.
Blog text (3) -
I had applied for a prestigious Carnegie Fellowship to go to the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories as a post-doc.
Academic text (1993) -
Finally, the guru of environmental metabolomics, Dr. Mark Viant, and his post-doc Dr. Jonathan Byrne helped immensely to ensure the quality of the data and analyses.
Blog text (20) -
After completing my PhD, I pursued a post doc at a prestigious university to further my research.
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She was thrilled to receive a post doc grant, allowing her to explore innovative solutions in renewable energy.
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During his post doc, he published several papers on climate change that received international recognition.
Synonyms
324
3.5
Money given by a government or group for a specific purpose without payback
50
6.0
Money given by an organization for advanced study
Funding that pays for research after someone gets a PhD
How Large
- Formal
30
4.0
324
3.5
- Specialized
2
5.6
10
3.6
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
post + doc
The meaning 'a postdoctoral position or grant' is directly inferable from combining 'post' (here understood as a position or as the prefix meaning 'after') with 'doc' (understood as short for 'doctor' / doctoral). If a learner recognises 'doc' as referring to someone with a doctorate, the compound straightforwardly denotes a position for someone after their doctorate; this pattern is common and found across many languages. The only potential difficulty is the informal abbreviation 'doc', but given knowledge of that short form the expression is transparent.
Etymology
Post doc comes from the idea of a job you take 'after the doctorate'. Post means after and doc is short for 'doctor', so a post doc is a paid position 'to continue research' after you finish your PhD.