Matthew Putman
Matthew Putman is a musician, scientist, producer and author currently living in Paris France with his wife Marine and daughter Juliette. He is a Researcher and Professor at Columbia University and the University of Paris. As a musician he has received acclaim from for his first album “Perennial” which was released in August 2008, and the quintet called "The Gowanus Recordings." Matthew is an inventor who holds patents in several areas including a new microscope with extremely high resolution. He has co-authored technical papers, and received the American Chemical Society Best Paper Award. He was an owner of the technology company Tech Pro, and now works as a senior consultant for Dynisco, who purchased Tech Pro in March 2008. Matthew is also the founder of a new high resolution microscope company called Nanotronics Imaging. Matthew is a published poet. He is also co-authoring a Physics text book in the field of Rheology.
Matthew has worked a a music, theatre and film producer. In the 1990's he produced a monthly series of readings of new works at Lincoln Center. He also worked with playwrights such as Israel Horovitz whom he managed the Gloucester Stage Company with in 2000. Matthew was a producer of the off-Broadway play “Perdita”, by Pierre-Marc Diennet, with his wife Marine which played at the Lion Theatre on Theatre Row. Matthew and Marine have also worked together as Associate Producers of the award winning film “Definition of Insanity” and the upcoming release of the “Benjamin Matthews Master Class”, which is a documentary of a class given by the late educator and musician Benjamin Matthews. Matthew is an Executive Board Member of The Montauk Observatory, and a founding benefactor and advisor of the "World Science Festival”.
Currently Matthew is working an afforable test for cervical cancer to be used in Sub Saharan Africa. He is also composing a ballet based on the life of Kurt Godel.