Joachim Hecker

• born in 1964 and raised in Mainz
• studied electrical engineering in Darmstadt/ Hassia
• development engineer with the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research (GSI), Darmstadt
• trainee position with WAZ newspaper group
• since 1995, reporter for the West German Radio «WDR»
• science editor and reporter with the West German Radio «WDR»
• since 2001, writer of the programme «Heckers Hexenkueche» (i. e. «Hecker's Magic Cauldron») in «LILIPUZ - Radio for Kids» on WDR 5
• 2005 «Children's Brockhaus. Experiments - On the Trail of Science»
• 2007 «Children's Brockhaus. Even more Experiments - Hands-on Science»
  and «The House of the Little Scientists - Exciting Do-It-Yourself Experiments»
• 2008 «The House of the Little Scientists - Exciting Do-It-Yourself Experiments» as audiobook
• Joachim Hecker is married and has a daughter

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