Assoc. Prof. Dr. Liew Thor Seng holds a PhD from Leiden University, Netherlands, and is a senior lecturer at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS). Specialising in insects and molluscs, Dr. Liew has published around 20 papers, focusing recently on Malaysia’s land snails and slugs. His passion for land snails began during his undergraduate studies, inspiring him to explore their hidden biodiversity and unravel the mysteries of their ecology and evolution.