Marjolein Poortvliet is a linguist and artist (portfleetdraws.com). Her interests lie in applying quantitative corpus methods to questions of language change and language use.

She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Oxford in May 2018 (titled Perception and Predication), after which she became a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam (fall 2018 & spring 2019), and went on to do her post-doctoral research at the Department of Linguistics at Charles University from April 2019 until February 2021. She then worked as a computational linguist RA on the Novel Perceptions: Towards an Inclusive Canon project at the University of Wolverhampton, until March 2022.

Marjolein was appointed as a 5-year Honorary Affiliate at Charles University in October 2021.