Brendan Walker biography

Brendan Walker is a Renaissance Showman - a technology-inspired performance artist described by The Times as "the world's only Thrill Engineer". Brendan's unique brand of live entertainment, contraption building, and scientific experimentation has gained him international notoriety in both the arts and sciences. He originally trained as an aeronautical engineer at Imperial College and worked for British Aerospace Military Aircraft for five years before undertaking an MA in Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art.

Brendan has featured on national and international TV and radio, and in the press. He has appeared as the "Thrill Engineer" on the BBC's Blue Peter, Bang Goes the Theory and the One Show, and Discovery Channel's Engineering Thrills. He most recently appeared as an engineer and presenter on Channel 4's five-part series Titanic: The Mission.

As well as creating his own work, Brendan consults on the design and production of other popular entertainment, from theatre to theme park rides, and most recently TV. Brendan is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, a tutor at Central Saint Martins College of Art, a consultant for the government's Arts and Humanities Research Council, a government champion for the sciences, and an experienced public speaker - though you're most likely to find him in his East End workshop drilling big holes in things he really shouldn't.