Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Intelligent Autonomous Systems lab at TU Darmstadt in Darmstadt, Germany. There he worked with Jan Peters on tactile manipulation and robot learning, while serving as the team leader at TUDa for the European Commission project TACMAN. Professor Hermans was at Georgia Tech from 2009 to 2014 in the School of Interactive Computing. There he earned his Ph.D. in Robotics under the supervision of Aaron Bobick and Jim Rehg in the Computational Perception Laboratory. His dissertation research dealt with robots learning to discover and manipulate previously unknown objects. At Georgia Tech he also earned a M.Sc. in Computer Science with specialization in Computational Perception and Robotics. He earned his A.B. in German and Computer Science from Bowdoin College in 2009.