Selvakumar Vijayalakshmi was born in Tamilnadu, South India, in 1985. She is presently working as a Senior researcher in the Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kangwon National University, South Korea. She received B.Sc degree in 2006, M.Sc degree in 2008 from Shrimati Indira Gandhi College,Trichy and M.Phil degree in 2009, and 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 in Shrimati Indira Gandhi College,Trichy, Tamilnadu, 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 “Mycological Society of India (MSI)” and Indian Initiative for Management of Antibiotic Resistance – IIMAR, India”. She edited 2 books in Elsevier Publishers, published 3 book chapters, and acted as a reviewer in Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology and Journal of Food Quality. She guided 8 M.Sc students and 4 M. Phil students. She has research experience in the following areas: Probiotic selection and characterization, Production of microbial metabolic products and their application, Nanoparticle synthesis and their application, Isolation and identification of drug-resistant bacteria, Exopolysaccharide extraction from probiotics and herbal plants. She received gold and silver medals for Best paper presentations in international conferences.