After receiving diploma thesis, in 2007 he was enrolled at PhD studies at University of Split, FESB, led by prof. Mario Cagalj. Toni defended his thesis titled User Friendly Authentication Mechanisms in User-to-Device and Device-to-Device Interactions in April, 2013, and received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science.

In 2015 Toni joined University Center of Forensic Sciences as Assistant professor, and was promoted to Associate professor in 2019. In 2020 he joined University of Split, FESB as Associate professor.

His research interests include location privacy, usable security and Internet of Things. He is actively involved in courses in the fields of cryptography and network security, wireless security, wireless sensor networks and computer forensics.