Eva Schwarz received her PhD in Philosophy with the thesis, entitled Subjektivität und Perspektivität (Subjectivity and Perspectivity) at the Department of Philosophy, University in Graz, Austria in 2007 (funded by the Austrian Science Fund). 2005 she has been visiting researcher at the Center for Subjectivity research in Copenhagen, Danmark. Between 2007 and 2010, she has worked as Assistant professor at the department for teacher training, University in Graz.

Since 2010 Eva Schwarz is working as a senior lecturer and researcher at the Center for Studies in Practical Knowledge at Södertörn University. Her research and teaching is mainly concerned with philosophy of education, subject theory, ethics, philosophy of science and knowledge, concepts of professional judgement and collectivity.

Schwarz is teaching philosophy of science, philosophy of education and ethics at the master program at the Centre for Studies in practical knowledge and at different professional education programs such as teacher training and police education.

At the moment, she is leading the research project The Cultivation of force. An investigation into emotional practices of teaching the use of force in Swedish and German Police Education (together with S. Bäckström). The project examines the affective dimensions of professional judgment and how emotions and violence are thematized and cultivated within police practices and education. (2025-2028; funded by The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies)

Previously, she has participated in the research project Collective Phronesis, which investigated how practical knowledge can be collective. The project combined philosophical investigations of the concept of "collective phronesis" with a study of how teachers and police officers in Sweden and Germany relate to collectivity in their professional practice. (2017-2020; funded by The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies)

Schwarz has also led a research project on the limits and possibilities of education in Early Childhood Education within the project Being and Becoming: A phenomenological perspective on formative dimensions of preschool education in Sweden and Germany (funded by Östersjöstiftelsen).