Sami VIOLLET

Sami Viollet had 2 passions: Mountains and Physics.                  Sami avait 2 passons: la Montagne               

He passed away too soon on February, 2nd 2025.                       et la Physique. Il nous a quitté 

Though so young he left us quite a legacy.                                     beaucoup trop tôt. Bien que très     

This site is dedicated to him through his 2 passions.                    jeune, il nous a laissez un bel 

                                                                                                                 héritage . Ce site lui est dédié à           

                                                                                                                  travers ses deux passions

Sami was born in Grenoble (France) on January 9th, 1997.

He spent his first childhood, with his elder brother

and his twin sisters, in Saint Pancrasse,

just below the Dent de Crolles in the Massif of Chartreuse,

not far from a climbing school,

and the paragliding take-off of Saint Hillaire du Touvet.

He also spent many of his holidays

in Les Contamines Montjoie,

close to the Mont Blanc.

His mother is an electronics engineer

and a management consultant,

and his father a Mountain Guide

and a paragliding instructor. 

He studied at Lycée Berthollet in Annecy

for his scientific preparatory classes.

He entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure

of Paris-Saclay in 2017 

where he obtained the Agrégation of Physics in 2020.

He joined the University of Luminy in Marseille

to complete a Master degree in theoretical physics

followed by a Phd he obtained on December 10th, 2024.

During all this time he never stopped

skiing, hiking, climbing, paragliding.