associate professor

English

Noun

associate professor (plural associate professors)

1. (education) A teacher in a higher education institution who ranks above an assistant professor and below a professor.
   • 2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     China's current economic challenges will be an "important factor" in Mr Xi's negotiations and "would lead to a stronger desire to stabilise the economic, trade and investment relations with the US", Li Mingjiang, an associate professor at Singapore's S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, told the BBC.

Synonyms

• Assoc. Prof.
• Assoc Prof

Related terms

• assistant professor
• instructor
• professor

Translations

teacher

• Afrikaans: medeprofessor
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 副教授 (zh) (fùjiàoshòu)

• Dutch: universitair hoofddocent m or f
• Finnish: apulaisprofessori
• French: maître de conférences (fr) m
• Greek: αναπληρωτής καθηγητής (el) m (anaplirotís kathigitís)
• Hungarian: docens (hu)
• Indonesian: lektor kepala
• Japanese: 准教授 (じゅんきょうじゅ, junkyōju)
• Malay: profesor madya
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: førsteamanuensis m

• Polish: docent (pl) m, adiunkt (pl) m
• Romanian: profesor asociat m
• Thai: รองศาสตราจารย์ (rɔɔng sàat-dtraa-jaan)
• Vietnamese: phó giáo sư

Further reading

• associate professor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia