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This presentation will present a status report on the work of the groups of Axel Maas, Simon Plätzer, and Denes Sexty at the University of Graz, which uses a combination of numerical and analytical techniques to address key questions about how fundamental matter interacts. We are interested in using these non-perturbative techniques to provide input for phenomenology and experiment. To fully bridge the gap between theory and experiment, we simulate hadronization using Monte-Carlo techniques. Lattice simulations enable research into the phases of Quantum Chromodynamics at finite chemical potential, crucial for our understanding of Nuclear Physics, the Standard Model, and general quantum field-theoretical predictions. We are further interested in the more profound, partly philosophical questions: how a force could look that unifies the very different forces of the Standard Model into a single grand unifying theory and quantum gravity, and, more generally, what symmetries, gauge invariance, and quantum field theory mean for our understanding of the world.