Dr Lochner has a PhD from the University of Cape Town. She is a Senior Lecturer with a joint position between the University of the Western Cape and the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (formerly SKA South Africa). Her focus is on cosmology and trying to get the best out of combining optical and radio telescopes like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, in Chile, as well as the Square Kilometre Array and its precursor, MeerKAT, in South Africa. She works on developing new statistical techniques and using machine learning to tackle the masses of data we are dealing with in astronomy, currently focusing on the use of anomaly detection for scientific discovery. After obtaining her B.Sc. from Rhodes University, Dr. Lochner pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Cape Town and completed her PhD in 2014. She then took up a two-year postdoctoral position at University College London, UK, focusing on machine learning techniques in cosmology. She returned to South Africa in 2016 as a researcher at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences before taking up her current position at UWC. Dr. Lochner is a South African Principal Investigator for the Rubin Observatory, an NRF P-rated researcher and has published over 24 peer-reviewed papers and technical reports. She is also the founder and director of an international mentoring programme for women and gender minorities in physics called the Supernova Foundation.