Hard Probes 2012: Experimental Summary

The 5th international Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions was held in May 2012 in Cagliari, Italy. This contribution summarises some of the experimental highlights presented at the meeting, concentrating on new results from LHC and RHIC on parton energy loss (‘jet-quenching’) and heavy quark meson production (‘quarkonia suppression’).