Dr. Helled holds a PhD in Political and Social Change and is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Turin. His work focuses on Israeli politics, society, and history, as well as nationalism and international relations, with a special emphasis on Israel–Italy relations. Since 2021, he has also been part of the academic team of the specialization course on Holocaust education at the University of Florence.

His teaching and research are grounded in historical political sociology, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory and Norbert Elias’s figurational analysis to study nationalism, collective memory, and political identity. He is an active member of SISP, ECPR, AIS, and EAIS. His publications include “Unstable Political ‘We’-Feeling in Italy and Israel: A Parable of Decivilization” (Quaderni di Sociologia, 2022) and the monograph Israel’s National Historiography: Between Generations, Identity, and Statehood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). His forthcoming book, Adapting Nations: National Resilience Between Contemporary Statehood and Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), co-authored with C. Pala and featuring an introduction by Siniša Malešević, examines how nations shape democratic institutions and legal structures in times of change and crisis.