My name is Johannes Bernhard and I am a beam physicist and section leader of the Liaison to Experiments Section of the Experimental Areas group at CERN. I am currently responsible for overall operation of the secondary beamlines of both the CERN East and North Area. I am also the beam physicist for the P42 and K12 beam lines, which deliver high intensity beams to the NA62 experiment. After finishing my work on the East Area Renovation project, I am concentrating now on the high intenisty upgrade of the ECN3 experimental cavern and other projects within the Physics Beyond Colliders study, which aims to understand the optimum exploitation of CERN facilities that are not directly connected to classical collider experiments.

My original scientific interest is Strong Interaction (QCD) and Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics, both dealing with not yet answered, fundamental questions in physics that are cuurently tried to being answered. I am a member of the NA62, NA64, NA58/COMPASS, and NA66/AMBER collaborations.

Before I started working in BE-EA, I was the technical coordinator and liaison to CERN for technical questions at the COMPASS experiment. I received my PhD in physics at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz in the field of hadron physics, for which I studied the interplay of different production mechanisms for vector mesons at medium energies in an energy regime where you can neither speak of gluonic nor mesonic force carriers. Using vector mesons allows you to probe the strong interaction with very well known particles. During my PhD studies, I also built and managed the Compass recoil proton detector and worked on the Compass trigger system as the local coordinator and expert.

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