Julian Heeck is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics. He works on theoretical astroparticle physics, in particular the phenomenology of theories that resolve existing puzzles such as dark matter and neutrino oscillations.
Heeck received his Ph.D. degree 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). Before joining UVA in 2020, he worked 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.