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doctoral candidate
A person who writes a scholarly work, the dissertation, in order to obtain a doctoral degree.
Als Doktorand forscht er am Institut für Physik zur Quantenmechanik.
As a doctoral candidate, he is doing research on quantum mechanics at the Institute of Physics.
The word belongs to the word family of 'Doktor' (doctor). The ending '-and' comes from Latin and often describes a person who is in a process—in this case, on the way to a doctoral degree.
Er ist Doktorand und schreibt gerade seine Dissertation.
He is a doctoral candidate and is currently writing his dissertation.
'Der Doktorand' (the doctoral candidate) is a noun of the N-declension. This means it takes the ending '-en' in all cases except the nominative singular.
Ich habe gestern mit dem neuen Doktoranden gesprochen.
I spoke with the new doctoral candidate yesterday.
The place or field of study is often named with a preposition. Typical formulations are 'Doktorand an der Universität' (doctoral candidate at the university), 'Doktorand am Institut' (doctoral candidate at the institute), or 'Doktorand im Fachbereich Physik' (doctoral candidate in the physics department).
Sie ist Doktorandin am Max-Planck-Institut.
She is a doctoral candidate at the Max Planck Institute.
