Professor Abril Acosta has a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the UAM Xochimilco Campus, a Master in Sociology in the line of education, and a Specialty in Sociology of Higher Education from UAM Azcapotzalco Campus. She has a degree in Sociology from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the UNAM.

She is a member of the National System of Researchers Level 1 and is a professor with a desirable profile by PRODEP for 2020-2022. The lines of research of interest are policies for higher education, academic career, working conditions and processes in public and private universities, and school trajectories.

Among his recent publications are "In search of an (in)visible but always present face", co-authored with Angélica Buendía Espinosa and Manuel Gil Antón, in the Mexican Journal of Educational Research, number 80 (2019); and "An approach to the working condition of university teachers in Mexico: between stability and precariousness", in co-authorship with René Rivera Huerta, in the book Inequality and Poverty, published in 2018; and "Twenty-four years of government policies in higher education. Count of an unfinished institutional design", in the e-book Government policies and Mexican public universities. Challenges to homogeneity published by the UAM Xochimilco Campus in February 2018.

She has collaborated in the preparation and delivery of refresher and training courses at La Salle University, the Insurgentes University, the University of Sonora, and for various public agencies such as the Ministry of Public Education (SEP), the Undersecretariat of Higher Secondary Education (SEMS) and the Institute of Security and Social Services of State Workers (ISSSTE), among others. He has presented various works at specialized events on the organizational study, education and information technologies, and the processes and conditions of teaching work and policies in higher education.