Jeremy Stansfield (born December 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 Notes2001–2003Science ShackPresenter2002–2003Home On Their OwnInventor / Engineer2004Zero to HeroEngineer2006Scrapheap ChallengeStaff EngineerBriefly credited as "Ballistics Expert"2006Men in White2006Wild Thing: I Love YouPresenter / Aeronautical Engineer2008Planet MechanicsPresenter8 episodes2009–2014Bang Goes the TheoryPresenter / Head of Engineering49 episodes2010Explosions: How We Shook the WorldPresenterDocumentary2010Wallace and Gromit's World of InventionScience correspondent2011Big, Bigger, BiggestPresenter / Engineer4 episodes2012HorizonPresenterApril 2012 episode entitled "Stuff: A Horizon Guide to Materials"2012Stargazing ChallengesPresenter2013NewsroundJudgefor "You Too Could be an Absolute Genius" segment
Film Year Title Credit Notes1998Lost in SpaceSpecial effects technicianFor Magic Camera Company1998The AvengersSpecial effects2004Van HelsingSpecial effects
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