In 1950 Zofia Komala began studying pharmacy in the Medical Academy in Kraków [before 1939 and from 1990 onward a part of the Jagiellonian University]. At the same time, recognized a highly talented student, she was offered a position of the junior assistant in the Acadeny.

Since 1957 until her retirement in 2000 she was employed in the Department of Experimental Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences (since 1969 a part of the Institute of Systematic and Experimmental Zoology, now Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals).

Research activities of Zofia Komala were mainly focused at the distribution of Paramecium in the Polish Carpathians.

Komala Z. 1994. Effects of atmospheric pollution on Paramecium sp. cells. Folia biologica (Kraków), 42: 41-44.

Komala Z. 1994. Contemporary investigations on the Paramecium aurelia species complex in the Tatras. Preliminary report. Folia biologica (Kraków), 42: 35-39.

Komala Z. 1996. Remarks on the Paramecium aurelia species complex and other zooplankton in the region of Szczawnica. Folia biologica (Kraków), 44: 35-39.

Komala Z. 1997. A new habitat of Paramecium biaurelia in Poland. Folia biologica (Kraków), 45: 55-58.

Komala Z. 1998. Further investigations on zooplankton of some lakes of the Mt. Babia Góra. Folia biologica (Kraków), 46: 61-64.

Komala Z. 1998. Report on the Paramecium aurelia species complex in a water body in the borderland of the Wyspowy Beskid and Gorce Mts. Folia biologica (Kraków), 46: 69-72.

Komala Z. 1998.Investigations on the occurrence of the Paramecium aurelia species complex in the Carpathians. Folia biologica (Kraków), 46: 77-82.

Komala Z. 2000. Paramecium aurelia species complex in the River Raba (Southern Poland). Folia biologica (Kraków), 48: 43-45.

Komala Z. 2000. Notes on the zooplankton of a water body on the southern slope of Mt Babia Góra (the Carpathians). Folia biologica (Kraków), 48: 47-48.

Komala Z., 2001. Paramecium aurelia species complex in the catchment area of the River Raba mountain course (the Carpathians). Folia biologica (Kraków), 49: 235-238.