Dr Stanisic is Australia’s foremost expert
on land snails and held the position of Curator of Molluscs at
the Queensland museum for 26 years.He is an Honorary Research Fellow at Queensland Museum.
Since retiring from the museum Dr Stanisic has worked as a Biodiversity Scientist and in 2010 was awarded “Certified Environmental Practitioner of the Year” by the Environmental Institute of Australia and New Zealand.
He has described over 400 new species and more than 100 genera of land snails and has surveyed more than 2000 terrestrial sites for land snails in eastern Australia. This work has resulted in the publication of the important two volumes of “Australian Land Snails” describing 1500 snails. He has authored, or contributed to, 49 peer reviewed papers, literally hundreds of unpublished scientific reports and many popular articles.