Veronica Vieland is the vice president for computational research and the director of the Battelle Center for Mathematical Medicine at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, where she holds the Battelle Endowed Chair in Quantitative and Computational Biology. She is also a professor in the departments of pediatrics and statistics at The Ohio State University. Dr. Vieland’s research focuses on the measurement of statistical evidence, both from a theoretical perspective and also as the foundation for understanding human genetic and genomic data. On the theoretical side, her work is currently focused on developing an absolute scale for the measurement of statistical evidence, following the template of the absolute scale for measurement of temperature. Dr. Vieland received her undergraduate degree in philosophy from Barnard College and graduate degrees in philosophy (mathematical logic and philosophy of science) and biostatistics from Columbia University. She has published over 120 papers and presented her work at numerous national and international venues. She has been the recipient of two NIH Career Development Awards, and she is an elected fellow of the American Psychopathological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.