Eduardo R Bejarano holds a degree (1982) in Biological Sciences from the University of Córdoba and a PhD in Biology (1988) from the University of Seville. He is Professor of Genetics at the University of Málaga, Director of Genetics, Secretary of the Department of Cell Biology, Genetics and Physiology and Deputy Director of the Institute of Horticulture and Mediterranean Mediterranean "La Mayora" (IHSM). He is adjunct editor of Journal of Plant Pathology and Journal of General Virology. He has been member of the commission of agriculture of the National Agency of Evaluation and Prospective (ANEP) and professor in the University of Seville His scientific career, which began at the University of Seville, was completed as a postdoctoral researcher (EMBO and NATO) at the Biotechnology Department of Imperial College London and in later stays as a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge's Micobiology Unit at Department of Science at University College London and the Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences at the University of Edinburgh.

Interactions Between virus-plants and their transmitting insects, using as a model DNA viruses transmitted by the whitefly Bemsia tabaci.