Dilnoza is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University. She completed her PhD in Political Sciences and International Relations at the Australian National University.  Her thesis focused on securitization theory in the context of  higher education policies in post-Soviet Central Asia.

Dilnoza was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Central Asia Program of Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. She was also a Visiting Researcher under the DAAD-Tsukuba Research Program for Central Eurasian Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany in 2013. 

Dilnoza’s research has been published in highly regarded journals such as Europe-Asia Studies,  Journal of Political Ideologies, Central Asian Survey, Problems of Post-Communism, and Central Asian Affairs. Dilnoza is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. In recognition of her teaching at ANU, she has been awarded with the ANU Award for Excellence in Education.  

• Securitisation theory
• Geopolitics of Central Asia
• the nexus of security and policymaking in higher education
• Russian foreign policy in Central Asia
• Internationalization in higher education
• Civil society and democratization in Central Asia