Wolfgang Ketterle

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.

German Physicist

Sydney Brenner

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.

British Scientist

Eric Allin Cornell

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.

American Physicist

Randy Schekman

When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

American Scientist

Refers to a temporary, transitional period in an academic career following a PhD.

Academic Phase

Emphasizes engagement in deep research, often more specialized than previous studies.

Research Intensive

Used to describe the activity or status, but not an official position or job title.

Not a Job Title

 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

ET is (probably) out...

 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

Mapping the Unknown,...

 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.

Ben Goldacre: Battling...

 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

Cannibal Bugs and...

 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

Experiments that point...

 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,

Adam Davidson: What we...

 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,

Barbara Block: Tagging...

 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

Reframing Black History...

 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

Lifesaving scientific...

 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.

Postdoc