Diganta Bandopadhyay

Hi! I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam, working on data analysis for the LISA space based gravitational wave detector.

Email: diganta.bandopadhyay@aei.mpg.de

Education

Ph.D. in Physics
University of Birmingham, 2025
Thesis: LISA Data Analysis: The search for long-lived gravitational wave signals
Supervisor: Dr. Christopher J. Moore
MSci in Physics and Astrophysics
University of Birmingham, 2021

Talks

Invited Talks

Towards the LISA Data Analysis era: Challenges, sources and search strategies

Seminar, Universitat de les Illes Balears, January 2026

Analysis of inspiral signals in LISA data: Building the road to the EMRI search

EMRI Search and Inference within the LISA Global Fit - Part I, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Paris, June 2025

Analysis of stellar-mass binaries in LISA data

10 years to LISA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, April 2025

Contributed Talks

Searching for stellar mass binary black holes in LISA

Britgrav, Southampton, 2023

Progess towards a semi-coherent search for EMRI signals

LISA data analysis workshop, Toulouse, November 2022

Publications

Global time-frequency search for stellar-mass binary black holes in LISA
D. Bandopadhyay, C.E.A. Chapman-Bird, A. Vecchio — arXiv:2510.19047, Oct 2025
Searching for stellar-origin binary black holes in LISA Data Challenge 1b: Yorsh
D. Bandopadhyay, C.J. Moore — Phys. Rev. D 111, 044039, 2025
Premerger observation and characterization of massive black hole binaries
G. Cabourn Davies, I. Harry, M.J. Williams, D. Bandopadhyay, L. Barack et al. — Phys. Rev. D 111, 043045, 2025
GPU-accelerated semicoherent hierarchical search for stellar-mass binary inspiral signals in LISA
D. Bandopadhyay, C.J. Moore — Phys. Rev. D 110, 103026, 2024
LISA stellar-mass black hole searches with semicoherent and particle-swarm methods
D. Bandopadhyay, C.J. Moore — Phys. Rev. D 108, 084014, 2023
Identifying LISA verification binaries among the Galactic population of double white dwarfs
E. Finch, G. Bartolucci, D. Chucherko, B.G. Patterson, V. Korol et al. — MNRAS 522, 5358-5373, 2023

GitHub Repositories

PySO
Hierarchical Particle Swarm Optimizer for EMRI searches
LISATracks
Visualisation of gravitational wave source tracks in LISA