Šime Demo is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Croatian Studies (University of Zagreb, Croatia). He completed an MA in Classical Philology in 2002 and a PhD in Linguistics in 2008 at the University of Zagreb. From 2004 to 2010 he worked at the Croatian Institute of History, then moved to the Faculty of Croatian Studies. He served two terms (2010-2012, 2014-2016) as the chair of the Department of Croatian Latinity. Since 2002 he has taught university-level courses in the field of classical languages and literatures. His professional stays abroad include a semester at the Katholike Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) in 2011-2012 and a semester at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität (Innsbruck, Austria) in 2017-2018. He has participated in ten research projects and lead two research groups within his home university. For the Croatian Education and Teacher Training Agency, he has participated in the national committee for school competitions in classical languages, as well as in working groups for certifying school textbooks. He has been a member of editorial boards of the journals Kroatologija and Systasis. He authored three books (of which one, co-authored, is a university manual), edited four books, and published about forty articles in journals and collections, about fifteen reviews, and about twenty translations from Latin. He participated at more than forty conferences and professional meetings in Croatia and abroad, and delivered several public lectures. His professional interests include linguistic aspect of early modern Latin texts, macaronic Latin, and digital humanities.