Peter Herrmann

Social philosopher of German origin. Currently he holds the position of a research fellow at the Human Rights Centre, Lçaw School, Ventral South University, Changsha, PRC.

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. 2013 he moved to Rome, Italy where he worked independently, but in close connection with the Italian research institute EURISPES. 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. School of Public Affairs, Dept. of Social Security and Risk Management, Zhejiang University, HangZhou, P.R.China. In September 2017 he commenced a one-year research position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich, changed in 2018 to the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz in Poland.

Besides, he is associate professor at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Eastern Finland and he holds a permanent visiting professorship as honorary associate professor at the Corvinus University (Faculty of Social Sciences and International Relations, Institute of World Economy) in Budapest, Hungary. Since November 2013 he is also Visiting Scholar at the Department of Chinese Studies at NUI Maynooth, Ireland.