Martin Herrmann (born 3 December 1956 in Erlangen) is a German biologist. Since 2004, he has been an adjunct professor at the Institute for Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen. After receiving the general university entrance qualification, he first studied chemistry in Würzburg and Erlangen. He then completed his degree in biology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen in July 1983. After completing his doctorate at the Institute for Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at FAU Erlangen in 1989, he was employed as a post doc in this department and studied abroad at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA. As a result of his habilitation in December 1997, he was a private lecturer at the Institute for Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at FAU Erlangen and was later appointed as an Extraordinarius for experimental medicine. Since his diploma thesis, he has been dealing with a certain type of autoimmune disease, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Since then he has been working on projects and collaborations in research in the field of immunology and especially in research of neutrophils and neutrophil extracellular traps NETs.