Miguel A Aranda graduated from Polytechnics University of Madrid in 1989 and obtained his PhD in Plant Pathology in 1995. From 1995 to 1998 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the John Innes Center (JIC, Norwich, UK). In 1999, he joined CSIC (Spain) as a tenured scientist, moving to Murcia (Spain) in 2002, where he led the CEBAS-CSIC Plant Virology research group. Miguel A Aranda has carried out sabbatical stays at JIC (3 months in 2008), UC Berkeley (12 months in 2011–2012), and UC Davis (6 months in 2017). Miguel A Aranda is currently a Research Professor at CEBAS-CSIC and founder and shareholder of the technology-based company Abiopep S.L. He is Senior Editor for the Plant–Pathogen Interaction area of the Annals of Applied Biology and for the Virology area of Molecular Plant Pathology. His main line of research deals with genetic resistance to plant viruses.