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Joachim Heck was born in Frankfurt am Main / Germany and grew up in this region. After earning his degree in process engineering from Karlsruhe University of Applied Science and his PhD from Technical University, Dortmund, Heck began his professional career in 1987 as a development engineer in the process development department of Hoechst AG in Frankfurt. After holding several managerial positions in production and process development, he joined Aventis Research & Technologies GmbH as a business manager in 1997, and from 1999 served as production manager of the Chemicals business unit of Axiva GmbH. Following its integration into Siemens AG, he held a variety of management functions in the Process Development unit. Since 2008, Heck has served as unit manager and a member of the management team at Resources Technologies Management GmbH based in Frankfurt. In 2010 Heck started to work as the management director of Ehrfeld Mikrotechnik BTS GmbH. Starting from the 1st. of August 2017 Ehrfeld was bought by the Chinese company Shaoxing Eastlake High-Tech and is now known as Ehrfeld Mikrotechnik GmbH.