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

Research interests: algebraic geometry, Gromov-Witten and Donaldson-Thomas theory, 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 and preprints: 

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

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

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

4. Quasimaps, Vertex, and Applications, notes from Berkeley, 2023

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

Moduli, Vol. 1, 2024, e6

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

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

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

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

9. Quasimaps to moduli spaces of sheaves, 

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

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

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

Other writings: 

1. Spaces of maps between curves, ICBS, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

Teaching:

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