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.
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:
Universality of CohFT of Hilb(S) (with Hsian-Hua Tseng), 2026
Torelli loci, product cycles, and the homomorphism conjecture for A_g (with 9 co-authors), 2026
Admissible covers and stable maps (with Max Schimpf and Johannes Schmitt), 2025
Hilbert schemes of points and Fulton-MacPherson compactifications, 2024
Unramified Gromov-Witten and Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, 2024
Accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society
notes from Berkeley, 2023
Moduli, Vol. 1, 2024, e6
Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, Vol. 12, 2024, e61
Forum of Mathematics, Pi Vol. 13, 2025, e12
Elliptic curves in hyper-Kähler varieties (with Georg Oberdieck),
International Mathematics Research Notices, 2021, no. 4, 2962-2990
Other writings:
Compactifying spaces of points, maps, and sheaves, Bologna, 2026
Spaces of maps between curves, ICBS, 2025
Hilbert schemes of points and Fulton-MacPherson compactifications, 2024
On quasimap invariants of moduli spaces of Higgs bundles, Moduli, 2024
Unramified Gromov-Witten and Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, String-Math, 2024
Sheaves, Quasimaps, Maps, Covers, dissertation, 2022
Quasimaps to moduli spaces of sheaves, Oberwolfach report, 2020
Teaching:
Complex Algebraic Surfaces, Spring 2026
Infinite-Dimensional Lie Algebras and Integrable Systems, Spring 2025
