Neira Fazlović is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with eight years of experience as a Teaching Assistant at the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Sarajevo, where she educates future veterinarians in meat inspection, microbiological examination, HACCP, manufacturing, unconventional animal production and veterinary public health. She has been recognised as best teaching assistant five years in a row and has also taught sanitary engineers and nutritionists at the Faculty of Health Studies since 2020.

She works as a Research Assistant in the ISO-accredited Laboratory for Food and Feed at the Veterinary Faculty, conducting microbiological analysis of food and feed including identification and enumeration of Salmonella, E. coli, Staphylococcus, Enterobacteriaceae, Listeria spp., Listeria monocytogenes, yeasts, fungi and Clostridia. She has experience with ELISA, Campylobacter detection using MINI VIDAS®, the LIMS system and laboratory accreditation documentation, and through her PhD research has gained expertise in PCR, DNA extraction, amplification and sequencing.

Her doctoral research at the University of Sarajevo (2018–2026) focuses on the detection of fish mislabeling using DNA barcoding and DNA minibarcoding methods. She graduated as Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 2017 with a grade average of 9.69/10 and was awarded The Golden Badge of the University of Sarajevo. She has completed additional specialist training in food hygiene, risk-based meat safety, EFSA SSD2 data coding, and EFSA crisis preparedness, and contributes to projects on fish adulteration and the use of 3D scanning and virtual reality in veterinary education funded by the Ministry of Science of Sarajevo Canton.