Courtney Reichhardt graduated from Montana State University with a BS in Chemistry in 2010. She then attended Stanford University where she joined Lynette Cegelski’s laboratory in the Department of Chemistry, and then she did her postdoctoral training in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington with Matthew Parsek. Courtney joined the Department of Chemistry at Washington University as an Assistant Professor in 2021. Her research program leverages her unique multidisciplinary training to answer important questions about the molecular biophysical principles of biofilm assembly.