T Alan Hatton is a principal investigator within the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is the Ralph Landau Professor in the department of chemical engineering. Alan's research interests include transport phenomena and separation processes, among others. He is the recipient of a 2015 J-WAFS seed grant for his project, 'Electrochemically-modulated separation processes for the treatment of contaminated water sources', and a J-WAFS Solutions project, 'Electrochemically-mediated adsorptive processes for water-remediation'.