Jem Stansfield
| Jem Stansfield | |
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| Born | 28 November 1975 |
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Jem Stansfield (born 28 November 1975) is an engineer and television presenter, currently working in the United Kingdom. He has appeared on Scrapheap Challenge, Science Shack, Home On Their Own, Zero to Hero, Men in White, Bang Goes the Theory, Wild Thing I Love You, Planet Mechanics, and presented a documentary Explosions: How We Shook the World . He has also worked on special effects for the movies Lost in Space, The Avengers and Van Helsing.
He 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. Among his inventions are a compressed-air powered motorcycle, and boots that walk on water (for which he won a New Scientist prize).[citation needed]
Jem's television roles are mostly as an on-screen engineer. For instance, he 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. For all the shows "Home On Their Own", "Science Shack", "Zero to Hero", "Men in White", "Wild Thing I Love You", he was an on-screen engineer who presented various "inventions".