Dr Kristiane Bernhard-Novotny is a scientific editor with a PhD in theoretical physics. She works where highly specialised expertise meets publication, evaluation and public interpretation. Her role is to ensure that complex work is presented with clarity, accuracy and intellectual integrity.
At CERN, she was responsible for technically demanding and reputationally sensitive content across multiple physics projects and institutional platforms. For home.cern and related outlets, she wrote and edited articles spanning fundamental physics and topics at the interface of physics and medicine.
Her work involved close collaboration with internationally recognised experts, including individuals whose contributions have shaped modern theoretical physics. Editorial decisions required careful judgement, precision and sustained dialogue with subject specialists. Maintaining trust, accuracy and proportion was central to this responsibility.
Communication, in this context, is not text production alone. It is a process of understanding and positioning.
What is the substance of the work?
What does the expert intend to convey?
How will it be read beyond the specialist field?
These questions guide her approach.
Before moving fully into editorial leadership, she worked in interdisciplinary research and development at gluoNNet in Geneva, at the interface of physics and data science in collaboration with academic and industrial partners. This experience provided insight into industrial workflows, contractual frameworks and milestone-driven delivery. It strengthened her ability to operate confidently across research and industry environments.
Her academic record also extends beyond her original field, including a contribution to historical and archaeological research. This reflects a broader methodological orientation: engaging with unfamiliar fields of expertise by understanding their standards of evidence and argumentation.
Science Poet was founded on a simple observation. Highly specialised work can become vulnerable when it moves beyond its immediate field. Evaluation shifts. Audiences expand. Expectations increase.
The company works precisely at this point of transition, supporting experts who want their work to be understood in the way it deserves.