The phrase "academic counterpart" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a person or entity in an academic setting that corresponds to or has a similar role as another in a different context or location.
Example: "The researcher collaborated with her academic counterpart from the university in Europe to enhance the study's findings."
Alternatives: "scholarly equivalent" or "academic equivalent".
In an open letter provided to The Independent, 18 Nobel laureates last week wrote to their Saudi academic counterparts urging them to add their voices to those calling for the 31-year-old dissident's release.
Unlike their academic counterparts, industrial scientists set their goals against specific commercially driven products or solutions.
Johnson draws a distinction between the extravagant, amateur Janeites and their more academic counterparts, whom she terms Austenites.
Compared to their academic counterparts, these nonuniversity researchers generally "earn more, have shorter appointment periods, and receive training and guidance with direct relevance to their career aspirations".
Nearly three-quarters of the industrial scientists attend professional meetings, although, again, this proportion is smaller than it is among their academic counterparts.
Depending on the industry, scientists contemplating a job at a particular company may have to do a bit more soul-searching than their academic counterparts do.
Salaries vary widely, but don't undervalue yourself--postdocs in industry earn far more than their academic counterparts, and staff scientist salaries are typically higher than those of junior academic faculty.
We would love to see something like what we have observed in Germany, where academic-practitioner collaboration is more commonplace, with German marketing managers often consulting their academic counterparts on problems they don't know the immediate answers to.
In some instances, research reports examples of frustration expressed by the industrial participants who perceive progress as slow within the project (Barnes et al. 2002); often these participants perceived their academic counterparts as not concentrating enough on tangible outputs.
Across all economic sectors, many of the industry-academy collaborations are of a research nature and mainly involve applied research with industry providing funding in exchange for intellectual contribution from the academic counterparts to the project (Butcher and Jeffrey 2005).
