Viktoryia Shautsova joined the UCF Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Fall 2024 as an assistant professor. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees in radiophysics with honors from Belarusian State University (BSU). Her research at BSU focused on creating plasmonic nanostructures for solar cell applications. Viktoryia earned her doctoral degree in physics from Imperial College London, focusing on ultrafast hot carrier dynamics in graphene-plasmonic systems. During her postdoctoral appointment at the University of Oxford, Shautsova investigated large-scale van der Waals heterostructures for optoelectronic devices and optically-induced phase transitions in PdSe2 using transmission electron microscopy. As a Stanford Science Fellow, she focused on development of nanoscale materials for neural engineering and advanced optical sensing. At UCF, Shautsova aims to continue investigation of emergent properties in nanoscale systems for electronic, photonic and biointerface applications.

• Zhang Q., Hou L., Shautsova V. & Warner J. H. Ultrathin All-2D Lateral Diodes Using Top and Bottom Contacted Laterally Spaced Graphene Electrodes to WS2 Semiconductor Monolayers. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 15, 18012–18021 (2023).


• Hou L., Xu W., Zhang Q., Shautsova V., Chen J., Shu Y., Li X., Bhaskaran H. & Warner J.H. Ultrathin Lateral 2D Photodetectors Using Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides PtSe2–WS2–PtSe2 by Direct Laser Patterning. ACS Appl Electron Mater 4, 1029 (2022).


• Hou L., Zhang Q., Shautsova V. & Warner J.H. Operational Limits and Failure Mechanisms in All-2D van der Waals Vertical Heterostructure Devices with Long-Lived Persistent Electroluminescence. ACS Nano 14, 15533 (2020).


• Lu Y., Chen J., Chen T., Shu Y., Chang R., Sheng Y., Shautsova V., Mkhize N., Holdway P., Bhaskaran H. & Warner J.H. Controlling Defects in Continuous 2D GaS Films for High-Performance Wavelength-Tunable UV-Discriminating Photodetectors. Advanced Materials 32, (2020).


• Ryu G.H., Zhu T., Chen J., Sinha S., Shautsova V., Grossman J.C. & Warner J.H. Striated 2D Lattice with Sub-nm 1D Etch Channels by Controlled Thermally Induced Phase Transformations of PdSe2. Advanced Materials 31, (2019).


• Shautsova V., Sinha S., Hou L., Zhang Q., Tweedie M., Lu Y., Sheng Y., Porter B.F., Bhaskaran H. & Warner J.H. Direct Laser Patterning and Phase Transformation of 2D PdSe2 Films for On-Demand Device Fabrication. ACS Nano 13, 14162 (2019).


• Shautsova V., Sidiropoulos T., Xiao X., Güsken N.A., Black N.C.G., Gilbertson A.M., Giannini V., Maier S.A., Cohen L.F. & Oulton R.F. Plasmon induced thermoelectric effect in graphene. Nat Commun 9, 5190 (2018).


• Shautsova V., Gilbertson A.M., Black N.C.G., Maier S.A. & Cohen L.F. Hexagonal Boron Nitride assisted transfer and encapsulation of large area CVD graphene. Sci Rep 6, 30210 (2016).