Sebastian Rösch

Sebastian Rösch is a Clinical Associate Professor and Senior Consultant at the Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria. Holding the academic title of Privatdozent, he integrates clinical practice with research in hearing disorders and genetic ENT pathologies.

His research focuses on hearing impairment mechanisms, genetic hearing loss (including SERAC1-related syndromes and SLC26A4/pendrin pathways), and diagnostic innovations such as elastography and superior canal dehiscence assessment. He investigates molecular determinants of hearing loss and neural processing in deafness, bridging basic science with clinical rehabilitation strategies.

Analysis of his 93 publications reveals increasing emphasis on genetic diagnostics (e.g., GJB2/CDH23 variants) and rehabilitation techniques, with 42 publications in 2023-2025 alone. Key themes include steroid therapies for hearing preservation, neural entrainment in cochlear implant candidates, and molecular pathogenesis of vestibular aqueduct disorders.

Rösch secured leadership roles in two major projects: an interdisciplinary study of congenital hearing loss with SLC26A4 mutations (2016-2017) and speech-neural entrainment research for cochlear implant rehabilitation (2018-2022). He serves as Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Clinical Medicine (2022-2023) and collaborates with the European Network for Genetic Hearing Impairment since 2020.