Dr Reichelt undertook her PhD studies in cardiac physiology at the Heart Foundation Research Center at Griffith University, and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney. She then worked at The University of California, San Diego before returning to Australia to undertake a National Health and Medical Research Council Peter Doherty Fellowship at the University of Melbourne. Dr Reichelt was then recruited to the University of Queensland working as a postdoctoral fellow for four years, before being appointed as an academic in the School of Biomedical Sciences.