"doctoral adviser" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone with whom you have a formal, professional relationship, who is helping you towards a doctoral degree. For example: "My doctoral adviser has been extremely helpful throughout my studies."
(Note: Susan Dynarski, one of the study's co-authors, was my doctoral adviser).
His doctoral adviser at Harvard decided that it should be his Ph.D. dissertation in 1947, rather than his intended dissertation.
Dr. Sverdrup and Dr. Munk were central figures at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where my doctoral adviser, Steve Elgar, was trained and took classes from Dr. Munk.
When her doctoral adviser sends her an e-mail message from his iPhone, Kearns signs off with an "Amy from my hay bale in New Orleans".
"That he is willing to criticize the I.M.F. is nothing new," said Gustav F. Papanek, an economist who was Mr. Ramli's doctoral adviser at Boston University.
In February Sun Liping, an academic who was once a doctoral adviser to China's president-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, wrote in a Beijing newspaper that the incident was of "historic significance".
The two doctorate programs (EID and EJD) will also offer joint supervision, with EID providing doctoral advisers from both academia and industry and EJD leading to doctoral degrees from multiple institutions.
Dr. Ptashne, his post-doctoral adviser who now works at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, praises his ability to join formal analysis with imaginative approaches.
As her doctoral thesis adviser, I can attest to her brilliance and judgment.
John Hope Franklin was one of my doctoral dissertation advisers at the University of Chicago in 1973 (Deborah Solomon, Sept. 18).
For my doctoral dissertation, my faculty adviser and I produced and tested Freudian slips in a laboratory setting.
