Today, Valerio Bianchi started as a postdoctoral research, supported by a 5-month fellowship within EPSRC’s “Postdoctoral Pathways for Growth” scheme. Valerio recently submitted his PhD thesis, supervised by Ulrich Pennig. This scheme will help Valerio to further develop his own research programme and take the next steps in his career. He works on the interplay between homotopy theory and operator algebras, and is currently working on classifying C* -algebras and group actions on C*-algebras by means of topological invariants.