Rinat Kashaev is a professor at the department of mathematics of the University of Geneva, where he has worked since 2002. His research covers topics in quantum topology, representation theory of Hopf algebras, integrable systems of low dimensional lattice statistical mechanics and quantum field theory, as well as Yang–Baxter and tetrahedron equations. He is the originator of the Volume Conjecture that relates quantum invariants of knots to the hyperbolic geometry of knot complements.
