Jem Stansfield
Introduction '''Jeremy Stansfield''' (born 1970) is a British engineer and television presenter who 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 (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.In 2013 Stansfield sustained injuries during filming of a segment for the series ''Bang Goes the Theory''. The segment was about the safety of front-facing and rear-facing seats in car crashes. Stansfield was in a cart which crashed, simulating the impact of a car hitting a lamppost and suffered from spine and brain injuries as a result.In 2021 Stansfield was awarded £1.6m in damages after a High Court battle. It emerged in court that the BBC had been warned of the dangers by crash test experts but this information was never passed to Stansfield.
Filmography ===Television=== Year Title Credit Notes2001–2003''Science Shack''Presenter2002–2003''Home On Their Own''Inventor / Engineer2004''Zero to Hero''Engineer2006''Scrapheap Challenge''Staff EngineerBriefly credited as "Ballistics Expert"2006''Men in White''2006''Wild Thing: I Love You''Presenter / Aeronautical Engineer2008''Planet Mechanics''Presenter''8 episodes''2009–2014''Bang Goes the Theory''Presenter / Head of Engineering''49 episodes''2010''Explosions: How We Shook the World''PresenterDocumentary2010''Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention''Science correspondent2011''Big, Bigger, Biggest''Presenter / Engineer''4 episodes''2012''Horizon''PresenterApril 2012 episode entitled "Stuff: A Horizon Guide to Materials"2012''Stargazing Challenges''Presenter2013''Newsround''Judgefor "You Too Could be an Absolute Genius" segment===Film=== Year Title Credit Notes1998''Lost in Space''Special effects technicianFor ''Magic Camera Company''1998''The Avengers''Special effects2004''Van Helsing''Special effects
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