Jonas researches the concepts of agency, society, and place. He explores how the concept of place is fundamental in understanding human agency and sociality at large, but also vice-versa. Beyond philosophy, he engages with further areas that deal with these concepts, such as geography, environmental psychology, and architecture. Besides his passion about the concepts of place, he has a strong interest in decolonial philosophy, philosophy of games, and Ancient Greek philosophy.

Jonas did his undergraduate degree in philosophy in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and his MA and PhD, also in philosophy, in Manchester, England.

Jaeah studies the construction of sociocultural, temporal-spatial, and affective dimensions within diasporic communities, with a focus on the concepts of home, space, identity representation, and political gesture. By analyzing how diasporic groups understand themselves, the places they inhabit, and their relationship to the wider world, she investigates decolonial influences that resonate across multiple generations of lived experience.

Her research further examines how culturally specific perceptions, epistemologies, and forms of representation – including (non-)verbal languages, multimodality, and fabulations – are to be observed, documented, and portrayed through various media. Her interdisciplinary approach centers on the fluidity of (un)conventional understandings of space and place, identity, imagery, film, and other forms of art. She investigates how these elements influence, and are in turn continuously reshaped and intertwined by, diasporic experiences concerning home, belonging, and identity.

Jaeah holds a BA in international relations and media and communications and an MA in visual culture, both from Korea University. She specialized in political science, cultural studies, visual culture, film and media studies, journalism, and contemporary French political philosophy, particularly the work of Jacques Rancière.

For his dissertation, Joey investigates the interrelation between places and their representations, with particular emphasize on transferable and increasable/decreasable meaningfulness of a place. These mechanisms are hoped to lead to an existential framework explaining how places gain meaningfulness through representations. Apart from his current undertakings, Joey engages in discussions about various ethical dilemmas, The Good Life, Philosophy of Mind, and similar topics that formed an important part of his MA background in Philosophy, University of Salzburg; all while keeping an eye on the bigger, often times interdisciplinary picture. Joey's BA in Politics, Economy, and Philosophy – also acquired at the University of Salzburg – paved the way in this regard.

Eugen conducts research in the field of cultural mediation using digital methods. He is interested in questions of how historical information must be prepared to generate long-lasting interest among different target groups from the lay sector; how diverse cultural information can be linked to become intuitively searchable through knowledge management systems; and what role places play in this context. Further interests include the examination of different approaches to knowledge transfer, from classic didactic methods and different persuasion methods to different types of storytelling.

Together with other LAB members, Eugen supports the development of the Corpus of Place Representations in relation to semantic aspects, textual media, and cultural heritage.

Eugen did his BA and MA degree in german studies and received a doctoral degree for research at the nexus of variation linguistics, sociolinguistics, and language attitudes research. He has formed part of and partly been responsible for several projects.