Fatma Tanış is a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Architecture at TU Delft and research associate at the Nieuwe Instituut. She is also a registered architect with the Chamber of Architects İzmir Branch. Before joining the department's section Building Knowledge and academic group Architecture Archives of the Future, she has been the curator of the department's digital repository for research output and activities and has been responsible for the science communication of the Department of Architecture chaired by Kees Kaan (2022- ), as well as she was the coordinator of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre (JBSC), special research collaboration between TU Delft and the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, led by Dirk van den Heuvel (2021-2024) and served as editor to the 100% Research directed by Frank van der Hoeven (2018-2020).
Her current research builds on her doctoral project executed in times of corona and explores innovative ways for constructing archives. It focuses on hybridising analogue and digital to display and utilise research conducted on architectural history in the age of data. In line with her research and within her capacity as the coordinator of the JBSC, she coedited proceedings of three consecutive conferences entitled 'Architecture Archives of the Future (2023)', 'Building Data: Architecture, Memory, and New Imaginaries (2022)', and 'Observers Observed: Architectural Uses of Ethnography (2021)'. Her other publications include a themed issue 'Narratives #1 Eastern Mediterranean and Atlantic European Cities (2021)'; 'Spatial Stories of İzmir (2020)'; 'Space, Representation, and Practice in the Formation of İzmir during the Long Nineteenth Century (2020)' in Migrants and the Making the Urban-Maritime World: Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570–1940, eds. Christina Reimann, Martin Öhman (New York, London: Routledge, 2020).
