Dr Danijel Džino is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology. He 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 two projects financed by Croatian Science Foundation GLOHUM – Global Humanisms: New Perspectives on the Middle Ages (300-1600), led by Prof. Miljenko Jurković from University of Zagreb and Prof. Zrinka Stahuljak from UCLA, and 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. He also maintains active collaboration with the Centre for Croatian Studies at Macquarie University, including co-editorship of the journal Croatian Studies Review.

Dr Džino also participates in the Project Varvaria-Breberium-Bribir. The excavations are conducted by Macquarie University at the site Bribirska glavica near Skradin in Croatia in partnership with the Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments (Muzej Hrvatskih arheoloških spomenika), from Split, Šibenik City Museum and Theologiske Meninghsfakultat from Oslo.

In 2021 Dr Džino is co-coordinator for the units AHIS1301: World Archaeology and AHIS2310: Byzantium in the Age of the Emperors. He is also Director for Graduate Certificate in Ancient History.

The research interests of Dr Džino are focused on archaeology and history of ancient and early medieval Illyricum, which roughly corresponds with the western and central regions of the Balkan peninsula, the modern countries of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Serbia and Slovenia, and the surrounding regions. He supervised (or currently supervise) 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 cemeteries, medieval Bogomil heresy, post-Roman Germanic kingdoms, etc.