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Bilal Tanatar (b. June 3, 1957, Istanbul) is a Turkish physicist who works on quantum solids and liquids, condensed matter physics and two-dimensional electron systems.

His fields of scholarship are quantum Monte Carlo simulations of many-body systems, in particular electron gas; diagrammatic perturbation theory as applied to condensed matter systems and Bose-Einstein condensation, ultra-cold atomic gases.

Education
He completed his high school education at English High School in Istanbul in 1976. After graduating from Boğaziçi University, Department of Physics in 1982, he went to the University of Delaware in the USA and worked on multi-particle interactions in liquid helium-3. He received his doctorate in 1987 with his thesis "High Momentum Excitations in Solid and Liquid Helium" under the supervision of Prof. Henry Glyde from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

He accomplished his post-doctoral studies respectively at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in USA with Prof. David Ceperley; at the University of Western Ontario in Canada with Prof. Mahi R. Singh and at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy with Prof. Mario P. Tosi.

Career
He joined Bilkent University Physics Department in Ankara, Turkey in 1991 as an assistant professor, where he became an associate professor in 1995 and a full professor in 1999. He served as the head of the Department of Physics at Bilkent University between 2001 and 2006.

More than 200 articles of his on the ground state and transport properties of strongly interacting quantum systems have been published in prestigious international peer-reviewed journals such Annals of Physics, Europhysics Letters, Journal of Physics, Physical Review, Physical Review Letters.

His major contributions include his 1989 paper co-authored with David Ceperley on the ground state of a two-dimensional electron gas using the so-called Tanatar-Ceperley exchange-correlation functional.

He is currently a faculty member at Bilkent University, Department of Physics, where he has been working since 1991.

Awards and memberships
He won the TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye) Incentive Award in 1993, the Turkish Phycial Associaton Prof. Dr. Engin Arık Scientist Award in 2008, and the METU (Middle East Technical University) Prof. Dr. Mustafa Parlar Science Award in 2010.

He was elected to the Turkish Academy of Sciences in 2001, and to the Academia Europaea in 2012.