The phrase "adjunct scientist" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a scientist who holds a part-time or temporary position at an academic or research institution, often while maintaining other professional commitments.
Example: "Dr. Smith serves as an adjunct scientist at the university while also working in the private sector."
Alternatives: "associate scientist" or "part-time scientist".
Adjunct Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
EMC holds a CSL Behring Research Chair and a Canada Research Chair in Endothelial Cell Biology and is an Adjunct Scientist with the Canadian Blood Services.
CL is an Assistant Professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto and an Adjunct Scientist at Women's College Research Institute.
CF is an adjunct scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto with an academic appointment of assistant professor at the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry.
DGM is a Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Adjunct Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa and University of Toronto, and Associate Scientist, C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre and Bruyère Research Institute.
HD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences at the University of Toronto, Adjunct Scientist at the SickKids Research Institute and Affiliate Scientist at the Toronto Western Research Institute.
The centers will likely offer job training, psychological support and possibly the incorporation of some "active religious leaders that would also bring in alternative religious viewpoints," said Kim Cragin, an adjunct political scientist at the RAND Corporation.
The bridegroom, 33, is an assistant professor of environmental science at Queens College and an adjunct associate research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y., a research unit of the Earth Institute of Columbia University; he studies coastal water quality.
Libicki also serves as an adjunct senior management scientist at the RAND Corporation.
Through adjunct positions, museum scientists are also well-placed to teach classical taxonomic and comparative techniques to undergraduates and graduate students and to teach courses in subjects that are the traditional province of natural historians, such as ornithology, entomology, or mammalogy.
In a recent essay published at Science Careers, Fatma Kaplan, a well-published scientist and adjunct lecturer at the University of Florida in Gainesville, explains what she has learned in applying for 150 tenure-track faculty positions since earning her doctorate in 2004.
