In 2015, Roza Szweda purchased her PhD at the Center of Polymer and Carbon Materials, Polish Academy of Sciences, working on polymer-peptide conjugates; her degree was defended with distinction in Kraków at AGH. Afterwards, she moved to Strasbourg and joined the Institute Charles Sadron CNRS as a post-doc.

In 2020, she established her independent research team at the Polish Centre of Technology Development situated in Wrocław, the flagship institute of the Łukasiewicz Research Network. She got several grant awards from the National Science Centre, the National Centre of Research and Development, and the Łukasiewicz Centre, all of which allowed her to build and run a team (szwedalab.com).

She was awarded a scholarship by the Polish Ministry of Science and Education for outstanding young scientists for her work. In 2023, she received a habilitation degree from the Silesian University of Science and Technology. Her research interests are focused on inducing functionalities into abiotic polymers through sequence and stereochemistry control.

For her research activity, she was recognized as a Rising Star in Polymer Science by Progress in Polymer Science and recently trusted by the European Research Council with a Starting Grant. Since January 2024, she is a professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland and head of the Programmable Polymers Team. Her research focuses on sequence-defined and stereocontrolled polymers that mimic protein-like folding and function.