Jem Stansfield


Jem Stansfield is an engineer and television presenter, currently working in the United Kingdom. He is best known for presenting 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.
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
YearTitleCreditNotes
2006Scrapheap ChallengeStaff EngineerBriefly credit as "Ballistics Expert"
2001-2003Science ShackPresenter
2002-2003Home On Their OwnInventor / Engineer
2004Zero to HeroEngineer
2006Men in White
2006Wild Thing: I Love YouPresenter / Aeronautical Engineer
2008Planet MechanicsPresenter8 episodes
2009 - 2014Bang Goes the Theory,Presenter / Head of Engineering49 episodes
2010Explosions: How We Shook the WorldPresenterDocumentary
2010Wallace and Gromit's World of InventionScience correspondent
2011Big, Bigger, BiggestPresenter / Engineer4 episodes
2012HorizonPresenterApril 2012 episode entitled "Stuff: A Horizon Guide to Materials"
2012Stargazing ChallengesPresenter
2013NewsroundJudgefor "You Too Could be an Absolute Genius" segment

;Film
YearTitleCreditNotes
1998Lost in SpaceSpecial effects technicianFor Magic Camera Company
1998The AvengersSpecial effects
2004Van HelsingSpecial effects