Amir Atoufi is a postdoctoral research associate at DAMTP, the atmosphere-ocean dynamics group, and G. K. Batchelor Laboratory. He received his PhD from the University of Waterloo in the Fall of 2020, where he studied turbulence in stably stratified boundary layers. From 2021-2023, he was involved in the ERC-funded project STAMP (Stratified Turbulence and Mixing Processes). He studied physical processes behind anti-diffusive layering in the stratified shear layers and how different these processes are in the estuary flows, straits and the open ocean. He also studied the interconnection between internal hydraulics and mixing properties in exchange flows. He now studies oceanic bottom boundary layer turbulence and the interaction of tidal forcing with boundary layer upwelling and downwelling processes in collaboration between DAMTP and Earth Sciences.