Jaime joined Flagship Ventures in 2012 as an Associate within Flagship VentureLabs^TM, after completing the Flagship VentureLabs Entrepreneurial Fellows program.  Jaime works with VentureLabs partners as part of a venture creation team, exploring innovative ideas and opportunities, and developing critical scientific and business components that will lead to the firm’s next breakthrough startups.  Before joining Flagship, Jaime was a Lecturer at MIT teaching Statistics and Design of Experiments to graduate students and also started and operated JM Analytics, a company providing statistical consulting and data analysis services to clients in academia and industry. 

He holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Biomedical Engineering from MIT, which was supported by a Fellowship Grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal).  He also has an S.M. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, and an M.Eng. in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College London.  As a graduate student most of his research was related to human spaceflight and physiology working at the intersection of engineering and medicine. His research activities have included developing a non-invasive instrument to assess bone blood flow in humans; studying the effects of altered gravity environments on the human cardiovascular, vestibular and circadian systems; and human factors engineering. He has participated in several zero-gravity parabolic research flights with the European Space Agency and with Zero-G Corp. Outside of work, Jaime is a scuba diving instructor, glider pilot and avid world traveler. He has lived in 7 countries and speaks 6 languages.