Andreja Gomboc graduated in 1995 at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (FMF) at University of Ljubljana with diploma work The appearance of a star falling in a black hole (Kako je videti padec zvezde v črno luknjo.).
She obtained Ph.D. by defending the dissertation Rapid luminosity changes due to interaction with a black hole (Hitre spremembe izseva ob interakciji s črno luknjo), which she prepared under the supervision of Andrej Čadež.
[2] From 2002 to 2004, she was a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Astrophysics Research Institute (ARI) of Liverpool John Moores University, England.
[7][8] The judging panel awarded excellent team work and results of measurement of optical afterglow polarisation, published in Science.
[10] In January 2010, she delivered a talk entitled "Us and the Universe" (Vesolje in mi)[11] in National Assembly of Republic of Slovenia as part of the project "Harvesting Knowledge".
In 2015, she received Zois Certificate of Recognition, a Slovenian state award, for important research findings concerning Gamma Ray Bursts.