Jonas Mago holds a BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences (University College Maastricht, The Netherlands) and a MSc in Mind, Language, and embodied Cognition (The University of Edinburgh, Schottland). Currently, Jonas Mago is pursuing his doctoral studies at McGill University, Canada.

His research focuses on the cognitive mechanisms underlying meditation, prayer and psychedelics using a multimodal approach combining neuroimaging (EEG hyperscanning), computational neuroscience (active inference and the free energy principle) and computational neuro-phenomenology.

Jonas Mago is particularly interested to explore the similarities and differences in the computational cognitive mechanisms underlying the emergence of altered states of consciousness in these different practices and to explore the therapeutic potential of these states.

A central component in this exploration are consideration of social and cultural embeddedness of these practices and phenomenologies, as well as 4E cognitive (embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended).