postdocs
Post-degree research fellows
Postdocs are researchers who have completed their doctoral degrees and hold temporary positions for further training and research experience.
The role typically lasts one to several years and serves as a stepping stone to permanent academic or research positions: She did two postdocs before landing a faculty job.
Short for postdoctoral researchers or fellows.
Fixed regular payment
- grantBestow or award money
- fellowshipMutual goodwill among companions
- salaryFixed periodic employment payment
- NIHFederal medical research agency
NSF · budget · overhead · contract · renewal · application · proposal · award
Guidance from experienced person
- fellowshipMutual goodwill among companions
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
- apprenticeshipLearning trade through employment
- workshopPlace for making or learning
seminar · advisor · PI · networking · tenure-track · independence · transition
Higher education institution
- departmentDistinct unit within organization
- facultyInherent power or ability
- labResearch facility, shortened
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
affiliation · adjunct · lecturer · tenure · professoriate · academia
Facility for scientific investigation
- experimentationSystematic testing of ideas
- publicationIssued written material
- methodologyFormal procedural framework
- findingsConclusions from investigation
journal · article · citation · empirical · hypothesis · fieldwork · collaboration · co-author
State of persistent vulnerability
- overworkToil to exhaustion
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- burnoutChronic occupational depletion
- attritionGradual reduction through loss
stipend
Fixed regular payment
- grantBestow or award money
- fellowshipMutual goodwill among companions
- salaryFixed periodic employment payment
NIH · NSF · budget · overhead · contract · renewal · application · proposal · award · foundation
mentorship
Guidance from experienced person
- fellowshipMutual goodwill among companions
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
- apprenticeshipLearning trade through employment
workshop · seminar · advisor · PI · networking · tenure-track · independence · transition
university
Higher education institution
- departmentDistinct unit within organization
- facultyInherent power or ability
- labResearch facility, shortened
administration · affiliation · adjunct · lecturer · tenure · professoriate · academia
laboratory
Facility for scientific investigation
- experimentationSystematic testing of ideas
- publicationIssued written material
- methodologyFormal procedural framework
findings · journal · article · citation · empirical · hypothesis · fieldwork · collaboration · co-author · manuscript
precarity
State of persistent vulnerability
- overworkToil to exhaustion
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- burnoutChronic occupational depletion
- academiaprofessors, universities, graduation cap, biology department, professor
- academicsprofessor, course, university professors, math, professors
- Academic Opportunitiesscholarships, grants, fellowships, internships, assistantships
- math peoplemathematicians, mathletes, math tutors, professors, researchers
- MITMIT, campus, admissions, alumni, faculty
- universitiesuniversities, Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge
postdocsfull professors
Highest-ranked university instructors
faculty · department chairs · deans · graduate students · undergraduates
- postdoctoral fellowResearcher after doctorate