After studying at Aachen University and the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heeck received his Ph.D. degree in 2014 from Heidelberg University in Germany. Following that, he held a postdoctoral position at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, supported by a fellowship from Belgium’s national science foundation, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS). In 2018, he began research as an assistant project scientist at the University of California, Irvine, supported by a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He joined UVA in 2020 as an Assistant Professor of Physics and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2026.

Heeck's CV as of January 2025 is attached below.