Dr Danijel Džino completed his BA (Hons) (1997-2000), MA (2001) and PhD (2002-2005) in Classics at the University of Adelaide. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide (2006-2009) until moving to Macquarie University to start work on his ARC postdoctoral grant (2010-2014).

As Croatian himself, Dr Džino is involved in different projects with scholars in Croatia - currently he is partner-investigator on the project Among gods and men - The cults and the population of Roman Dalmatia according to the votive inscriptions led by Dr Ljubica Perinić from Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, financed by Croatian Science Foundation. He also maintains active collaboration with the Centre for Croatian Studies at Macquarie University, including co-editorship of the journal Croatian Studies Review.

The research interests of Dr Džino are focused on the archaeology and history of ancient and early medieval Illyricum, which roughly corresponds with the western and central regions of the Balkan peninsula. He supervised (or currently supervises) PhD and MRes theses on: ancient Liburnia, ancient Greeks in the Adriatic, Roman legionaries in Dalmatia, early medieval Slavs and Avars, early medieval Anglo-Saxon and 'Old-Croat' cemeteries, medieval heresies, post-Roman Germanic kingdoms, late antique Dalmatia, the Ostrogoths, etc.