postdoc

English

Etymology

Clipping of postdoctoral.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊstˌdɒk/

Noun

postdoc (plural postdocs)

1. (informal) A postdoctoral academic research position.
2. (informal) Someone in such a position.
   • 2001 July 24, James Glanz, “To Be Young and in Search of the Higgs Boson”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     "We have to sing for our supper, and that's something the young people are coming to terms with," said Dr. Robin Erbacher, 33, a postdoc at Fermilab.

   • 2001 August 21, Jennifer 8. Lee, “Postdoc Trail: Long and Filled With Pitfalls”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     Many of the postdocs are almost 40 before they start their first permanent positions and begin saving for retirement.

   • 2017 May, Marc D. Ruben, John B. Hogenesch, “Circadian Rhythms: Move over neurons—astrocytes mediate SCN clock function”, in Current Biology, volume 27, number 9:

     Two successful applications of the CRISPR-Cas9 system in an SCN- and cell-type-specific fashion [5] will all but certainly add to the common refrain of 'just CRISPR it' (grad students and postdocs, insert groan here).

Translations

a postdoctoral academic research position

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 博士後 / 博士后 (zh) (bó shì hòu)

• Georgian: პოსტდოქტორანტურა (ṗosṭdokṭoranṭura), პოსტ-დოქტორანტურა (ṗosṭ-dokṭoranṭura)
• Icelandic: nýdoktor
• Japanese: ポスドク (posudoku), 博士研究員 (はくしけんきゅういん, hakushi kenkyūin)
• Korean: 박사후연구원 (baksahuyeon'guwon)
• Russian: нау́чный сотру́дник с учёной степенью (naúčnyj sotrúdnik s učónoj stepenʹju)

Spanish

Noun

postdoc m (plural postdocs)

1. postdoc