Lily Pereg

Lily Pereg (; 1964–2019) was an Australian microbiologist who was born in Israel. She completed a bachelor's degree at Ben Gurion University and a master's degree at Tel Aviv University. She moved to Australia in the 1990s to undertake a PhD at the University of Sydney, which she completed in 1998. Following this, she completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Cologne, Germany. In May 2001, Pereg took up an appointment in the School of Science and Technology at the University of New England, where she was promoted to Professor of Microbiology in 2018. Following his arrest and trial, Gil Pereg was sentenced to life in a secure psychiatric institute for the murders where he subsequently died from unknown causes in 2019.