research professor

research professor (plural research professors)

1. A full professor who is exclusively or mainly engaged in research, and who has few or no teaching obligations.

• professor

• 2014, Michel Clasquin-Johnson, What is the difference between a research professor and a professor?:

  Professor is what you become after teaching for twenty to thirty years. Research Professor is what you then want to become, so you can finally stop worrying about students and do the research that lured you into academia in the first place!