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Jem designs, builds and invents for a living. He has a degree in aeronautics from Bristol University and a tremendous general understanding of scientific principles. He is also a qualified welder and has the skills in his hands to build many of the ideas in his head.
Before settling to a life in science, his ‘can do’/’make do’ attitude led him to surf tubes and reefs on cheap hire boards, have fleeting success as a stand-up comic, teach children in a rural Czech school and ‘enjoy’ life as a shepherd in outback Australia. But for the past decade, it has been mainly science and engineering projects: creating special effects for movies such as Lost in Space, The Avengers and Van Helsing, producing prominent installations and interactive exhibits for worldwide museums, and working on a ludicrous range of machines and gadgets for companies that need that kind of thing.
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Over the past six years, he has applied his skills to the world of televsion. In 2001, 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. He used to invent kids’ dream gadgets on ITV’s Home On Their Own with Ulrika Jonsson, and he was the on-screen man behind the machines and experiments on BBC2’s Science Shack. For Channel 4’s series Zero to Hero, he was on-screen engineer.
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In 2006 Jem presented two series for Channel 4. In Men in White – an irreverent Sunday evening science show – he answered cries for help from members of the public. Combining his skill, knowledge and a few important experiments, he invented the machines, which solved their problems.
Wild Thing I Love You was a groundbreaking Sunday evening nature conservation show for the channel. Jem worked with wildlife experts to examine situations where mankind exerts too much pressure on nature and where, with a little cunning design and engineerig, he was able to build something to redress the balance.
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