Daniel Grabić studied international information management at the University of Hildesheim, graduating in 2004. In his master’s thesis, he dealt with identity politics discourses in the context of the independence of the youngest European state, Montenegro (independence in 2006).

From 2006 to 2010, he completed his PhD at the University of Leipzig as a doctoral fellow of the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLLF). Since then, he has been manager to the musician and artist, Carolina Eyck. Between 2017 and 2022, he also worked as project manager and CMO for the Leipzig-based company Dr. Dobler-Optimierung (DDO). Since 2023, he has been working as an administrative project coordinator at the Centre for Development Communication EC4SC at the Institute for Communication Studies at the University of Leipzig.