- providing novel theoretical tools that bridge the gap between microscopic and macroscopic features while studying crystals considering real material properties - overcoming the limitations of current state-of-the-art theoretical approaches in this field through novel, hybrid, and data-driven approaches - enabling applications to technology-relevant crystalline systems and related open problems in materials science - extending modeling approaches to systems beyond crystals - development of phase-field and phase-field-crystal models to study crystal properties (and complementary methods for selected comparisons) - investigation of mechanical properties of bulk crystals and thin crystalline films - analysis of data and quantitative comparisons with experiments - implementation of models in computer codes for numerical simulations - numerical studies, including on HPC facilities Further specific tasks can be tailored to your interests.