Mohammad Reza Darafsheh

Mohammad Reza Darafsheh (born 31 August 1950) is an Iranian Mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Tehran, and a member of the executive committee of the Iranian Mathematical Society.

and Ph.D. degrees from University of Birmingham in 1975 and 1978 respectively under the supervision of Donald Livingston.

[3] His research area includes the representations and characters of finite groups, symmetry class of tensors, Thomson's conjecture, characterization of simple groups by the set of elements order.

He has solved the Feit's conjecture on the p-Steinberg characters of finite groups.

He has authored the books "An introduction to group theory",[4] "Linear groups",[5] and a 3 volume book titled "Algebra" [6] which was included in "Eighty Treasures" in 2008 as part of the 80th anniversary of University of Tehran's establishment.