Tobias Schwarz studied veterinary medicine at the Humboldt and Free University of Berlin in Germany. He did a diagnostic imaging residency at Glasgow University Veterinary School and became a Diplomate in Diagnostic Imaging with the RCVS (DVR), ECVDI and ACVR. He has been an academic radiologist at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin-Madison and since 2009 is the head of the Diagnostic Imaging Service at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, since 2022 as Chair Professor of Veterinary Radiology. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles and his particular interests are in thoracic imaging and computed tomography. On both topics he has published a comprehensive textbook.