After his military service in the German Navy, R.M. Hermann studied medicine at the University of Münster (Germany) until 2000, during which time he completed internships in Scotland and Australia. His specialist training in radiotherapy took place at the University Medical Center Göttingen (Germany) until 2017, where he also habilitated on “hormonal influences on cellular radiosensitivity”. In 2007, he moved to the Joint Practice for Radiotherapy Bremen / Westerstede as a specialist and junior partner while he affiliated scientifically with Hannover Medical School. His scientific focus is on the radiotherapy of benign diseases as well as the oncological therapy of gastrointestinal and genitourethral carcinomas. He has published over 90 articles in PubMed-cited journals and written several book chapters. In 2020, he received the Günther-von-Pannewitz Prize of the German Society for Radiooncology.