Berkeley in 1985,[2] he was a Harvard Junior Fellow until 1987[3] when he joined the faculty at the California Institute of Technology, where he is currently a professor of astronomy and data science.
[7][circular reference] Djorgovski has worked on numerous topics in astronomy and cosmology, including galaxy formation and evolution, fundamental properties of early-type galaxies, globular clusters, gravitational lenses, quasars, gamma-ray bursts, cosmological tests, large digital sky survey, exploration of the time domain in astronomy, etc.
[8] Some notable discoveries include: pioneering studies of radio galaxies beyond z > 1, including detections of strong evolutionary effects, alignment effects, and K-band Hubble diagram for radio galaxies (with H. Spinrad and others); discovery of collapsed cores in globular clusters, and the first census thereof (with I.R.
de Carvalho and others); discoveries of the first examples of binary quasars, a systematic census of them, the first case of a triple quasar, and several tens of gravitational lenses; the first application of the Tolman test for the universal expansion (with M. Pahre); the first GRB redshift, demonstrating the cosmological nature of GRBs, and pioneering studies of GRB afterglows and host galaxies (with M. Metzger, S.R.
Kulkarni, D. Frail, and others); pioneering exploration of the time domain with digital synoptic sky surveys (with A.A. Mahabal, M.J. Graham, A.J.
[14] He was also the director of the Meta-Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA), the first professional scientific organization based in virtual worlds.