Csörgő graduated from the István Dobó High School in Eger, Heves County.

[2] From 1972 to 1975 he completed a post-doctoral theses at the Kiev State University under Anatoliy Skorokhod.

On its completion in 1975, he returned to Szeged, where he was appointed assistant professor, a role he held until 1978, when he was awarded a teaching professorship, leading the Department of Stochastics.

Csörgő's work is often cited in highly respected domestic and foreign journals, but most often in English.

In 2001 he was elected as an Associate Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, full Membership following in 2007.