[2] Segura has participated in several activities in and outside UNAM defending women's rights; she was awarded with the 2021 Hermila Galindo medal by the Congress of Mexico City.

[3] Antígona Segura graduated with a degree in Theoretical Physics from the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí.

There she met the astronomer Miguel Ángel Herrera, with whom she conducted scientific research in a project directed by Arcadio Poveda.

[4] She earned her doctorate in the Earth Sciences postgraduate program at UNAM with the thesis Fijación de nitrógeno por relámpagos volcánicos en el Marte primitivo (Nitrogen Fixation by Volcanic Lightning on Primitive Mars), advised by Rafael Navarro González [es].

[11] In 2022, Antígona Segura was awarded with the Hermila Galindo Medal "for promoting women's equal access to the labor force.