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Dmitri R. Yafaev (Дмитрий Рауэльевич Яфаев; born 2 January 1948) is a Russian-French mathematical physicist. At the University of Leningrad (now renamed Saint Petersburg State University) Yafaev received his Russian Candidate degree (Ph.D.) in 1973 with thesis advisor Mikhail Birman and was a lecturer from 1973 to 1977. From 1977 to 1990 Yafaev was a researcher and senior researcher at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics. At the University of Nantes he was an associate professor from 1990 to 1992. Since 1992 he is a full professor at the University of Rennes 1.