She is the Robert "Bud" Moeller Faculty Fellow and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and the Associate Vice President for research operations and infrastructure at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Walton became the founding director and lead principal investigator of Georgia Tech's DOE Energy Frontier Research Center UNCAGE-ME in 2014 and led her team to a renewal in 2018.

[4][5] She has served as associate editor for the ACS journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research since 2014[6] and has been active in the Separations Division of AIChE for over 15 years.

Walton was recently selected into the 2020 cohort of the Defense Science Study Group (DSSG) and will serve a two-year term from 2022-2024 after COVID delayed the start of the program.

Research in the Walton Group focuses on the design, synthesis, and characterization of functional porous materials for use in chemical separations.