Philipp van Helden has been working as a Research Fellow at the Henry Kissinger Chair for Security and Strategic Studies since May 2023. In this role, he supports the chairholder in academic matters and is also responsible for managing the English-language master's program in Strategy and International Security.

His research focuses on the North Atlantic Alliance, German foreign and security policy, and Intelligence Studies.

Philipp van Helden studied Political Science, Sociology, and Law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. He completed his master's degree with a thesis on the development of NATO’s strategic orientation.

Summer term 2025

• Die NATO als System kollektiver Verteidigung - Historische Entwicklung und aktuelle Herausforderungen (in German), BM "Internationale Beziehungen"
• "Zeitenwende" – An evaluation and the future of German foreign and security policy, Elective Module "German Foreign Policy" (MSIS)
• Continuity and Change: German Foreign and Security Policy Since 1949 (with PD Dr. Bastian Matteo Scianna), Elective Module "German Foreign Policy" (MSIS)

Winter term 2024/25

• The Nexus between Warfare and Technology. Developments and Challanges of the 21st Century,  Basic Module "Geostrategy, Technology and Security" (MSIS)

Summer term 2024

• The United Nations Security Council in Times of Turmoil, Elective Module "Global Power Shifts" (MSIS)

Winter term 2023/24

• Changing Patterns in Transatlantic Security, Basic Module "International Security" (MSIS)
• Research Methods and Tools (together with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schlie and Prof. Sigmar Gabriel), Basic Module "Research Methods and Tools" (MSIS)

Summer term 2023

• Rise of the Gulf Moarchies as Global Players? (BMIB)