Postdoc
noun
A person who has completed their doctoral degree and is doing advanced research to gain more experience.
He worked as a postdoc for two years before he became a full-time professor.
Often appears as...
- postdoc position
- postdoc research
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Academic
noun
A person who has completed their doctoral degree and is doing advanced research to gain more experience.
He worked as a postdoc for two years before he became a full-time professor.
Often appears as...
- postdoc position
- postdoc research
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Academic Phase
Refers to a temporary, transitional period in an academic career following a PhD.
After her PhD, she started a postdoc at Harvard.
Pro Tip 2/3Research Intensive
Emphasizes engagement in deep research, often more specialized than previous studies.
His postdoc involved extensive research in astrophysics.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Job Title
Used to describe the activity or status, but not an official position or job title.
She's doing a postdoc in biochemistry.
Pro Tip 1/3Academic Phase
Refers to a temporary, transitional period in an academic career following a PhD.
After her PhD, she started a postdoc at Harvard.
Pro Tip 2/3Research Intensive
Emphasizes engagement in deep research, often more specialized than previous studies.
His postdoc involved extensive research in astrophysics.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Job Title
Used to describe the activity or status, but not an official position or job title.
She's doing a postdoc in biochemistry.
Pro Tip 1/3Academic Phase
Refers to a temporary, transitional period in an academic career following a PhD.
After her PhD, she started a postdoc at Harvard.
Pro Tip 2/3Research Intensive
Emphasizes engagement in deep research, often more specialized than previous studies.
His postdoc involved extensive research in astrophysics.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Job Title
Used to describe the activity or status, but not an official position or job title.
She's doing a postdoc in biochemistry.
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ET is (probably) out...
you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home right because it was all this science just lying around waiting for somebody to pick it up well that's not true anymore today you got to spend years in grad school in postdoc positions just to figure out what the important questions are it's hard there's no doubt about it
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Mapping the Unknown,...
postdoc the expectation was that the universe was either slowing down a great deal like the universe model on the left a very heavyweight universe full of matter that was quickly slowing down the expansion eventually the expansion would halt and then it would start to contract and the universe would end any kind of
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Ben Goldacre: Battling...
But it's also an extremely valuable explanatory tool, because real science is about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position. That's what happens in academic journals, it's what happens at academic conferences -- the Q&A session after a postdoc presents data is often a bloodbath.
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Cannibal Bugs and...
I'd have to put say a hundred locust in and then my postdoc who would take them out eight hours later at the end of a locust day would say you you said you were gonna put in a hundred but they were only 98 this happened again and again he was a sort of passive-aggressive frenchman and i
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Experiments that point...
postdoc in the lab who is a physicist asked me what did the cells do when you put them in why did it what do they do in the beginning when they they do i said i don't know we couldn't look at them we didn't have high images in the old days so she being an imager and
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Adam Davidson: What we...
who still has that kind of way of seeing the world. The vast majority of economists -- it is so uncool to call yourself an ideologue of either camp. The phrase that you want, if you're a graduate student or a postdoc or you're a professor,
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Barbara Block: Tagging...
And from that mucus, we can get gene profiles, we can get information on gender, checking the pop-up tag one more time, and then it's out in the ocean. And this is my favorite. With the help of my former postdoc, Gareth Lawson,
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Reframing Black History...
how do you know if there's an issue well for me um i did a postdoc in this and i had no choice but to look at these um databases of millions of images where my entire day was looking through
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Lifesaving scientific...
That's my postdoc Saad Bhamla, who's the co-inventor of Paperfuge. And to the left, you see all the centrifuges that we're trying to replace. This little object that you see right here
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Online learning could...
During long days in lab, I got impatient. I wanted to teach. I didn’t want to wait to graduate and do a postdoc, spend years navigating a treacherous job market.
Video examples
ET is (probably) out...
you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home right because it was all this science just lying around waiting for somebody to pick it up well that's not true anymore today you got to spend years in grad school in postdoc positions just to figure out what the important questions are it's hard there's no doubt about it
Video examples
Mapping the Unknown,...
postdoc the expectation was that the universe was either slowing down a great deal like the universe model on the left a very heavyweight universe full of matter that was quickly slowing down the expansion eventually the expansion would halt and then it would start to contract and the universe would end any kind of
Video examples
Ben Goldacre: Battling...
But it's also an extremely valuable explanatory tool, because real science is about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position. That's what happens in academic journals, it's what happens at academic conferences -- the Q&A session after a postdoc presents data is often a bloodbath.
Video examples
Cannibal Bugs and...
I'd have to put say a hundred locust in and then my postdoc who would take them out eight hours later at the end of a locust day would say you you said you were gonna put in a hundred but they were only 98 this happened again and again he was a sort of passive-aggressive frenchman and i
Video examples
Experiments that point...
postdoc in the lab who is a physicist asked me what did the cells do when you put them in why did it what do they do in the beginning when they they do i said i don't know we couldn't look at them we didn't have high images in the old days so she being an imager and
Video examples
Adam Davidson: What we...
who still has that kind of way of seeing the world. The vast majority of economists -- it is so uncool to call yourself an ideologue of either camp. The phrase that you want, if you're a graduate student or a postdoc or you're a professor,
Video examples
Barbara Block: Tagging...
And from that mucus, we can get gene profiles, we can get information on gender, checking the pop-up tag one more time, and then it's out in the ocean. And this is my favorite. With the help of my former postdoc, Gareth Lawson,
Video examples
Reframing Black History...
how do you know if there's an issue well for me um i did a postdoc in this and i had no choice but to look at these um databases of millions of images where my entire day was looking through
Video examples
Lifesaving scientific...
That's my postdoc Saad Bhamla, who's the co-inventor of Paperfuge. And to the left, you see all the centrifuges that we're trying to replace. This little object that you see right here
Video examples
Online learning could...
During long days in lab, I got impatient. I wanted to teach. I didn’t want to wait to graduate and do a postdoc, spend years navigating a treacherous job market.
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Wolfgang Ketterle
German Physicist
After earning my Ph.D., I stayed at the Max-Planck Institute as a postdoc, working on laser excitation of Rydberg states of triatomic hydrogen and helium hydride. I also succeeded in analyzing all the emission spectra of helium hydride, which I had discovered during my Ph.D.
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Sydney Brenner
British Scientist
I sometimes say I am the extinguished professor, because what I'd really like to be is the postdoc, to have that kind of thinking. I think one can get very set in his ways with titles like 'distinguished professor.
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Eric Allin Cornell
American Physicist
The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.
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Randy Schekman
American Scientist
When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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Wolfgang Ketterle
German Physicist
After earning my Ph.D., I stayed at the Max-Planck Institute as a postdoc, working on laser excitation of Rydberg states of triatomic hydrogen and helium hydride. I also succeeded in analyzing all the emission spectra of helium hydride, which I had discovered during my Ph.D.
Quote examples
Sydney Brenner
British Scientist
I sometimes say I am the extinguished professor, because what I'd really like to be is the postdoc, to have that kind of thinking. I think one can get very set in his ways with titles like 'distinguished professor.
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Eric Allin Cornell
American Physicist
The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.
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Randy Schekman
American Scientist
When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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