T. Alan Hatton is the Ralph Landau Professor and Director of the David H. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in Chemical Engineering at the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, and worked at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria for three years before attending the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to obtain his PhD.

He is currently Co-Director of the MIT Energy Initiative Low Carbon Energy Center for Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage. His research interests encompass self-assembly of surfactants and block copolymers, synthesis and functionalization of magnetic nanoparticles, and the exploitation of stimuli-responsive materials for chemical, environmental and pharmaceutical processing applications, with a particular current emphasis on electrochemically mediated operations for carbon dioxide capture.