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Well, basically stuffy means packed like when your nose is stuffy. Stuffy can also mean a stuffed animal. Sometimes people call stuffed animals stuffies.
You call that person a scholar.
Pompous Professor-9 letters I know professors would not like to be thought of as stuffy scholars but they can be exactly that, especially at the Ivy League schools. I know plenty of pompous professors and my step dad could be a real annoying one at times.
I guess an eager scholar?
A biologist.
Stuffy is an adjective
How stuffy is the weather today. Cloudness and hot temperature make the weather stuffy.
A scholar is a high educated (with a University degree, better will be a PhD (philosophiæ doctor)) person and his or her life is surrounded by constant research, You may call a scholar to a specialist in a given branch of knowledge.
You could call them a "knowledge seeker" or "curious individual."