After graduating from the Märkische Schule in Bochum-Wattenscheid in 2015, Lucks began studying social science at the Ruhr University Bochum in 2016.

[6][7] At the beginning of the 20th legislative period of the German Bundestag, he became the youngest full member of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

In addition to his committee assignments, Lucks has been a member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) since 2022.

[18] Lucks has been campaigning for the global improvement of the situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans* people (LGBT*) ever since.

[20][21] When it became known that Yazidis were increasingly at risk of deportation, he sharply criticised Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser.

He did not back the motion by the Baehrens/Janecek group, among others, for mandatory vaccination from the age of 60, which was preferred by the SPD and Greens majority.