UNE microbiologist Associate Professor Lily Pereg has left for Europe on an extended trip that will see her organising sessions at the European Geoscience Union annual assembly (EGU2017) and negotiating a memorandum with a Spanish university.

A/Prof Pereg’s microbiology career began with marine biology, and moved to soils via the study of plant-soil interactions. She is now studying the link between soils and human health, an emerging theme in UNE’s School of Science and Technology.

A/Prof Pereg is an executive editor of the journal SOIL, and won an Endeavour Executive Fellowship to travel to Vienna as an organiser of sessions at at EGU2017, in particular a conference session on “Soil and Human Health”.

In the latter part of her trip she will visit the Miguel Hernández University of Elche to work on a memorandum of understanding around research linkages between UNE and the Spanish institution.