I whanau a Lochte i Hanover. I whiwhi ia i tana PhD i roto i te koiora moana i te Whare Wananga o Te Tai Tokerau o Wales i te 1984. I muri i tana PhD, i mahi ia i runga i te microbiology moana hohonu i te Institut für Meereskunde, Whare Wananga o Kiel. I mua i tana mahi, ko Lochte he kaiwhakaako mo te Oceanography koiora i te Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences i te Whare Wananga o Christian-Albrechts i Kiel i reira ia i arahi ai i tetahi waahanga rangahau i arotahi ki nga huringa matū i roto i te moana. I whakaako ia i te koiora o te moana i te Whare Wananga o Rostock me Kiel mai i te 1995 ki te 2000 ana muri mai i te Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research i Warnemünde tae noa ki te 2007. Ko ia ano te kaiwhakahaere kaupapa mo te Atlantic Data Exchange Base for Processes at the Deep Sea Floor (ADDEP), he kaupapa a te Uniana o Europi i utua mai i te tau 1998.
1995 ki te 2000