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.

[5] After the revolution, some newspapers reported that she had lived a wild life, having numerous lovers and often being drunk.

Zoia sued the institute, but the lawsuit was not completed; in the end, she decided to stop fighting and retire.

[9] Zoia Ceaușescu believed that her parents were not buried in Ghencea Cemetery; she attempted to have their remains exhumed, but a military court refused her request.

[11] She died of lung cancer in 2006, at the age of 57, and her remains were incinerated at the Cenușa Crematorium [ro].