Between 1995 and 2013 he worked in Ireland where he occupied at the end the position of a senior research fellow at University College Cork, School of Applied Social Studies.
From 2015 to 2017 he worked as Professor for Economics at Bangor College of Central South University of Forestry & Technology, Changsha, PRC, and as Senior Foreign Expert.
Additionally, he is associate professor at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Eastern Finland [www.uef.fi], and he holds a permanent visiting professorship as honorary associate professor at the Corvinus University [1] (Faculty of Social Sciences and International Relations, Institute of World Economy) in Budapest, Hungary.
Until 2013 he had been director of the independent research institute ESOSC (European Social, Organisational and Science Consultancy) with its headquarters in Aghabullogue, Ireland.
Contributions to a Theory of Modernisation and NGOs in the Context of the Development of the EU; New York: Nova Science, 1998 [6]) and which became later known under the term “multilevel governance”.
Research visits in – amongst others – Australia (at the Cairns Institute [7]), Austria, France, Germany, Hungary (there at the ELTE - Eötvös Loránd university [8] in connection with Zsuzsa Ferge), Sweden, Taiwan (on invitation of the Institute of Humanities and Social Science) and Turkey (at ODTÜ - Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi [9], supported by TÜBİTAK - Türkiye bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma) strengthened his critical attitude towards traditional approaches of social policy.
Together with the Austrian political scientist and one of the founders of quantitative world systems research, Arno Tausch, Herrmann elaborated some publications.
With Herrmann’s cooperation with the French Marxist economist Paul Boccara he linked his work closely with the question of the general role of the state.
This allowed him to study more closely the ambiguity of social and human rights law – issues he discussed in particular in his collaboration with Hans F. Zacher.
After his move to Rome, Italy, Herrmann developed independently, but also as member of the scientific council of EURISPES [www.eurispes.eu] (Istituto di Studi Politici, Economici e Sociali), his research.
While he sees it in part as challenge around social security and employment law, his main interest aims on clarifying the meaning of ongoing processes for the existing mode of production.