Introduction
Jem Stansfield is an engineer and television presenter, currently working in the United Kingdom. He currently presents the BBC One science show Bang Goes the Theory.
Career
Stansfield has a degree in aeronautics from Bristol University and before his television career worked: in a Czech school, as a shepherd in the Australian outback, and briefly in stand-up comedy. Stansfield was an on-screen ballistics expert for the television show Scrapheap Challenge and went on to become a permanent part of the engineering team for subsequent series.
Among his inventions are a compressed-air powered motorcycle, and boots that walk on water (for which he won a New Scientist prize).
In 2010 Stansfield used vacuum cleaners to create "Spider-Man style" climbing gloves, climbing 30 feet up a brick wall. He also drove a modified 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco 210 miles from London to Manchester using coffee granules for fuel.
Filmography
- Television
| Year | Title | Credit | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unknown | Scrapheap Challenge | Staff Engineer | Briefly credit as "Ballistics Expert" | |
| 2001-2003 | Science Shack | Presenter | ||
| 2002-2003 | Home On Their Own | Inventor / Engineer | ||
| 2004 | Zero to Hero | Engineer | ||
| 2006 | Men in White | |||
| 2006 | Wild Thing: I Love You | Presenter / Aeronautical Engineer | ||
| 2008 | Planet Mechanics | Presenter | 8 episodes | |
| 2009 - 2014 | Bang Goes the Theory, | Presenter / Head of Engineering | 49 episodes | |
| 2010 | Explosions: How We Shook the World | Presenter | Documentary | |
| 2010 | Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention | Science correspondent | ||
| 2011 | Big, Bigger, Biggest | Presenter / Engineer | 4 episodes | |
| 2012 | Horizon | Presenter | April 2012 episode entitled "Stuff: A Horizon Guide to Materials" | |
| 2012 | Stargazing Challenges | Presenter | ||
| 2013 | Newsround | Judge | for "You Too Could be an Absolute Genius" segment |
- Film
| Year | Title | Credit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Lost in Space | Special effects technician | For Magic Camera Company |
| 1998 | The Avengers | Special effects | |
| 2004 | Van Helsing | Special effects |