Martijn Heck received the M.Sc. degree in applied physics (2002) and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering (2008) from the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. From 2007 he held various postdoctoral positions, before becoming an Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, in 2013. In 2020 he joined Eindhoven University of Technology, where he is a Full Professor and Scientific Director of the Eindhoven Hendrik Casimir Institute. His research focuses on the technology and applications of photonic integration, for example in microwave and terahertz photonics, sensors, quantum technology and energy-efficient interconnects.