In 2025, Hermany became a faculty member of the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (NPP), in the Division of Biosciences. His lab focuses on psychiatry-relevant circuits to delineate key circuit components for specific mood-related symptoms to find circuit-enriched receptors that can be targeted to modulate such symptoms. Hermany is currently funded by a Wellcome Career Development Award Fellowship (2026-2034). Previously he was awarded the prestigious Swedish Research Council (VR) Fellowship and the BBRF Young Investigator Award to transition as an independent research faculty.

Hermany graduated with a degree in Biomedicine (UFRN) in Brazil. He completed his PhD with Professor Jens Hjerling-Leffler in Cortical Interneuron Diversity at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. In his postdoctoral training, Hermany was co-mentored by Professor Conor Liston and Professor Joshua Levitz at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, where he made important contributions to our understanding of the basic mechanisms that underlie psychiatric disease pathophysiology and treatment.