Prof. Dr. Karin Lochte

Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association
Germany

Short biography

Prof. Dr. Karin Lochte (*1952) has been director of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association - situated in Bremerhaven, Germany - since November 2007.

Using her position to promote the large scientific tasks related to Polar Sciences, she has been involved as a delegate of the “Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research” since 2008. Karin Lochte is and was member of diverse national and international committees. Since 2004 she has been member of the German Science Council, and has been chairwoman of the scientific commission from 2006 - 2008. In addition she has been chairing the “Senatskommission für Ozeanographie“ (Senate Commission for Oceanography) since 2004.

Prior to her directorship at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Karin Lochte had already been scientifically involved at this institute from 1990 – 1994, and had been engaged in research on the bacterial colonization and activity of bacteria in sea ice. From 1995 – 2007 Karin Lochte lectured on the subject of biological oceanography at the universities of Kiel and Rostock. At the Leibniz-Institut für Meerswissenschaften, where she is currently a member of the board of trustees, she has been head of the research unit biological oceanography from 2000 – 2007.

In 1994, Karin Lochte received her Venia legendi at University of Bremen. Prior to her professorship, Karin Lochte worked on the topic deep sea microbiology from 1985 - 1990. Karin Lochte received her PhD in Marine Biology at the University College of North Wales, UK, in 1984.

Plenum

09/09/2009, 10:30 - 12:30

Opening

• Beobachtung und Modellierung als Grundlage für Klimaadaption
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