Education
After completing her Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics, she worked as a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest.
After completing her Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics, she worked as a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest.
She did her studies at the University of Bucharest. Her field of specialization was functional analysis. She moved on to work for Institutul pentru Creație Științifică și Tehnică (INCREST, Institute for Scientific and Technical Creativity), where she eventually started and headed a new department of mathematics.
During the Romanian Revolution, on 24 December 1989 she was arrested for "undermining the Romanian economy" and was released only eight months later, on 18 August 1990.
After she was freed, she tried unsuccessfully to return to her former job at INCREST, then gave up and retired. After the revolution, some newspapers reported that she had lived a wild life, having plenty of lovers and often being drunk.
The Securitate "could not touch" the children she said, but the information they provided created a lot of problems for the children. She also remarked that power had a "destructive effect" on her father and that he "lost his sense of judgment".
Zoia was known to be an inveterate smoker.
She died of lung cancer in 2006, at age 57.
