Selvakumar Vijayalakshmi is presently working as a Research Professor in the Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kangwon National University, South Korea. In addition, she is working as an Adjunct Professor at Saveetha Dental College & Hospital, Chennai, India. She received a B.Sc. degree in 2006, an M.Sc. degree in 2008 from Shrimati Indira Gandhi College, Trichy, and an M.Phil. degree in 2009, and a Ph.D. degree in 2015 from A.V.V.M Sri Pushpam College, Poondi, Thanjavur affiliated by Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India. After her Ph.D., She worked as an Assistant Professor at Shrimati Indira Gandhi College, India, before moving to Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea, in 2019 as a Research Assistant Professor. She is an active member of various scientific groups, including “The Mycological Society of India (MSI)” and the Indian Initiative for Management of Antibiotic Resistance – IIMAR, India”. She edited 2 books in Elsevier Publishers and Review Editor in Frontiers in Microbiology. She has research experience in the following areas: probiotic selection and characterization, production of microbial metabolic products and their application towards anti-colon cancer activity, gut microbiota modulation, immunomodulatory activities, nanoparticle synthesis and their application, isolation and identification of drug-resistant bacteria, and exopolysaccharide extraction from probiotics and herbal plants.