I am a SNF Ambizione Fellow and Hermann-Weyl Instructor at ETH Zurich in Rahul Pandharipande's group. Prior to that, I was in the group of Anton Mellit at University of Vienna. I obtained my PhD from University of Bonn under the supervision of Georg Oberdieck in 2022. Here is my CV.

Research interests: algebraic geometry, Gromov–Witten and Donaldson–Thomas theories, moduli problems, mirror symmetry and holomorphic-symplectic varieties.

Email: denis.nesterov@math.ethz.ch 

Phone: +41 44 632 34 03

Address: HG J 14.6, Rämistrasse 101, Zürich

Curves, Lines, and Zurich by Yulia Dryablova.

Papers: 

1. Universality of CohFT of Hilb(S) (with Hsian-Hua Tseng), 2026

2. Torelli loci, product cycles, and the homomorphism conjecture for A_g (with 9 co-authors), 2026 

3. On the Hilbert-Chow crepant resolution conjecture, 2025

4. Admissible covers and stable maps (with Max Schimpf and Johannes Schmitt), 2025

5. Hilbert schemes of points and Fulton-MacPherson compactifications, 2024

6. Unramified Gromov-Witten and Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, 2024

Accepted in Journal of the American Mathematical Society

7. Quasimaps, Vertex, and Applications, 

notes from Berkeley, 2023

8. On quasimap invariants of moduli spaces of Higgs bundles,

Moduli, Vol. 1, 2024, e6

9. Enumerative mirror symmetry of moduli spaces of Higgs bundles and S-duality, 2023 

10. Gromov-Witten/Hurwitz wall-crossing, 2022

11. Quasimaps to moduli spaces of sheaves on a K3 surface, 

Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, Vol. 12, 2024, e61

12. Quasimaps to moduli spaces of sheaves, 

Forum of Mathematics, Pi  Vol. 13, 2025, e12

13. Elliptic curves in hyper-Kähler varieties (with Georg Oberdieck), 

International Mathematics Research Notices, 2021, no. 4, 2962-2990

Other writings: 

1. Compactifying spaces of points, maps, and sheaves, Bologna, 2026

2. Spaces of maps between curves, ICBS, 2025

3. Hilbert schemes of points and Fulton-MacPherson compactifications, 2024

4. On quasimap invariants of moduli spaces of Higgs bundles, Moduli, 2024

5. Unramified Gromov-Witten and Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, String-Math, 2024

6. Sheaves, Quasimaps, Maps, Covers, dissertation, 2022 

7. Quasimaps to moduli spaces of sheaves, Oberwolfach report, 2020

Teaching:

• Complex Algebraic Surfaces, Spring 2026

• Infinite-Dimensional Lie Algebras and Integrable Systems, Spring 2025