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Vilte Baltramonaityte is a Researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath. Her work focuses on understanding the causal pathways linking early life stress to mental and physical health problems, with a particular emphasis on comorbidity and genetic influences. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Bath, awarded in 2024 under the supervision of Dr. Esther Walton, Prof. G. Fairchild, and Dr. A. Ward.
Her research interests include childhood maltreatment, Mendelian randomization, genome-wide association studies (GWAS), and the interplay between psychological and cardiometabolic health. She has contributed to studies on biological pathways linking early adversity to multimorbidity, the moderating role of stress reactivity in depression, and the epigenetic effects of prenatal stress on child psychiatric symptoms.
Notable projects include a multivariate GWAS of psycho-cardiometabolic multimorbidity, published as a dataset in 2023 (DOI: 10.15125/BATH-01179). She collaborates internationally, with recent work involving researchers from institutions in the Netherlands, France, and the UK.
Her research outputs often involve advanced statistical methods like structural equation modeling and Mendelian randomization. She has contributed to open-source tools for genetic analysis, as seen in her GitHub repository 'Psycho-cardiometabolic-multimorbidity'.
