I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. My advisor is Jan Willem Wieland. As of November 2026, I will take up a postdoctoral position at Ludwig Maximilian University, with Laura Valentini as my advisor.

I work at the intersection of ethics, rational choice, and political philosophy. I am also interested in philosophy of economics and value theory (or anything that crosses my desk, really).

Previously, I was a PhD student in Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Erasmus University Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE) under the supervision of Constanze Binder and Conrad Heilmann. In October 2024, I successfully defended my thesis "On Having, and Making, Choices" (cum laude).

Before my PhD, I obtained a Research Master at EIPE, an Msc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences at the London School of Economics, and a Bsc in Economics at Bocconi University.

Feel free to contact me at a.costella@vu.nl.