"doctoral advisor" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe someone who provides advice and support to a doctoral student. For example: "My doctoral advisor gave me helpful guidance throughout my dissertation process."
"My doctoral advisor had the habit of going for walks with his students to brainstorm," Oppezzo says of Schwartz.
Watkins was his doctoral advisor and mentor, a fact Jasanoff acknowledged in the preface of his most recent book.
As a doctoral advisor, he has trained many students who are now faculty at some of the best institutions across the world.
Rich Losick Bob Tjian's doctoral advisor, Isogai's "graduate advisor's graduate advisor," and therefore "grandfather" on the intellectual family tree advised, "If you are thinking of a postdoc in neuroscience you should at least consider Catherine Dulac". Her work on pheromone sensing coincided neatly with Isogai's past experience in chemical ecology, so he applied to her lab.
In mid-1980s, he was appointed as the doctoral advisor in medicinal chemistry at Beijing Medical University (now part of Peking University) (Fig. 3).
And, serving as his doctoral advisor, Hollister expanded Andronicos's horizons far beyond the New Mexico sky; he remains an important ally and colleague.
Because the Fellowships are offered only to postdoctoral scientists early in their careers, doctoral advisors are encouraged to discuss the availability of AGS Postdoctoral Research Fellowships with their graduate students early in their doctoral programs.
Because the fellowships are offered only to postdoctoral scientists early in their career, doctoral advisors are encouraged to discuss the availability of EAR fellowships with their graduate students early in their doctoral programs.
In a move that echoed conversations between many doctoral advisors and their graduate students, Butz urged participants to define more clearly the problems.
But whether one's doctoral advisors form a well-knit team or a dysfunctional family, they form a support group, one handed to the writer by the university.
When Mary Grace Gainer anxiously told her master's and doctoral advisors that she'd noticed want ads for college professors diminishing, they assured her, "Good people get good jobs".
