Alberto Scotti is a professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy. His main focus is theoretical, experimental and computational aspects of environmental fluid mechanics, with a focus on phenomena that occur in stratified fluids, such as internal waves and turbulent mixing. His research has been supported by the Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation. Prior to joining ASU, Scotti was a professor in the Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.