After completing her undergraduate studies at the
University of Bucharest in 2001, she pursued her graduate studies at
Brown University, where she received her Ph.D. in 2006; her dissertation was supervised by
Jeffrey Ezra Hoffstein.. After completion of her degree, Bucur was a member of the School of Mathematics at the
Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton, New Jersey from 2006 to 2007 and 2009–2010 and a
C. L. E. Moore Instructor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2006 to 2009. She came to the University of California, San Diego, in 2009 as an assistant professor and was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor in 2016. Bucur returned to the Institute for Advanced Study as a von Neumann Fellow of the School of Mathematics from 2018 to 2019. Bucur has been involved in Women in Numbers (WIN) Network, a professional network for women with research interests in
number theory, since its inception. She serves on the WIN Steering Committee. and co-organized Women in Numbers Europe (2013), the European Women in Mathematics Summer School (2014), and the
Association for Women in Mathematics Workshop on Women in Number Theory (2017). Bucur has been an active member of the
Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). She has been AWM Meetings Coordinator and a member of the AWM Executive Committee since August 2018. Prior to becoming a member of the executive committee she served on the Mentor Network Committee (2015–2018) and the Joint Mathematics Meetings Committee (2016–2018). ==Recognition==