My research focuses on the hadronic physics within the Standard Model (SM) of Particle Physics, studied from first principles using Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (LQCD). In particular, I am interested in observables and processes which are experimentally well-determined and can be used to probe the SM. Examples to which I have dedicated my time in the past years are hadronic contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. With the Columbia LQCD group and the RBC/UKQCD collaboration that it belongs to, I will investigate CP-violation within the SM via rare kaon decays.