Marta Afonso obtained her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2023, presenting a doctoral thesis entitled "Portuguese Documents (1270–1285): Edition, Linguistic Study, and Glossary." She previously earned a Bachelor’s degree in Modern Languages and Literatures – Portuguese Studies from the University of Porto in 2005, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Romance Literatures in 2006. She received a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Linguistics from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2010. Her academic and research interests cover the History of Portuguese Language, Philology, Linguistic Variation, and Corpus Linguistics. Her professional experience includes lecturing roles at the Universities of Provence and Nice as part of the Camões Institute, as well as serving as an Invited Assistant Professor at the University of Porto's Faculty of Arts. She has worked as freelance consultant on Artificial Intelligence projects and teaches Portuguese as a Foreign Language. Currently, she is an Invited Assistant Professor at the University of Porto.