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.

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.