Amarela Terzić-Vidojević, PhD, is a microbiologist whose focus is on research in general and technological food microbiology. She graduated in the field of processing and control of agricultural products in 1984 at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina-Faculty of Agriculture. She received her master's degree in Technological Microbiology at the University of Belgrade-Faculty of Agriculture in Zemun in 1990. As part of her doctoral dissertation, which she defended in 1994 at the University of Novi Sad-Faculty of Technology, she worked on the investigation of radioresistance of barley microflora as a carrier of antibiotic producer.

Before working at the Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering of the University of Belgrade, she worked at the Faculty of Agriculture in Sarajevo as an assistant in the subject of General and Technological Microbiology. The general goal of her current research is the development of starter cultures for fermented dairy products based on autochthonous lactic acid bacteria isolated from artisanal dairy products in order to preserve the typical sensorial properties of the traditional dairy products produced under controlled conditions.

As the leader of the UTRL SAIGE project, she and her team created the first biobank of autochthonous probiotic lactic acid bacteria in Serbia and the region.

She is the recipient of several awards: 2014: Award of the Belgrade Venture Forum for the best innovation: “Development of probiotic product for non-human mammals using natural isolates of lactic acid bacteria”; 2016: Annual Awards of Belgrade Chamber of Commerce for the best inventions, designs and technical improvements: “New probiotic starter culture for human and animal use”; 2018: Belgrade City Award, category "Finding" "New probiotic starter culture for human and animal use"; 2018 Patent: New probiotic starter culture for human and animal use - National and International (PCT), Institute for Intellectual Property of the Republic of Serbia.