Hélder Telo is an appointed research fellow at PRAXIS – Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Culture (University of Beira Interior), where he is developing a research project entitled “Care and Truth in Ethics: A Heideggerian Reflection in Dialogue with Plato and Foucault”. He has also taught various subjects at UBI.
He earned his PhD in Philosophy from the NOVA University Lisbon (2018) with the thesis Unexamined Life on Trial: A Crucial Problem in Plato’s Writings, after carrying out part of his doctoral research at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (2009-10 and 2014) and Boston College (2010-11). During this period, he received grants from FCT and the Collaborative Research Center [SFB] 1015 Muße/Otium.
Between 2020 and 2022, he was a postdoctoral fellow at IFILNOVA, where he developed a research project on the art of living and the relationship with truth in Plato and contemporary thought. He is currently a colaborator of the Research Group on Ancient Philosophy, the group Forms of Life and Practices of Philosophy and the Lisbon Nietzsche Group. He is also a member of the exploratory project “Mapping Philosophy as a Way of Life: An Ancient Model, A Contemporary Approach” (2023-24) and co-editor of the collection “Filosofia e Valores” (Edições 70). His most recent publications include Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy: Critical Assessments (Brill, 2024), which he co-edited with Marta Faustino.
