Josef Rauschecker is a Professor at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences, Georgetown University. He is also Director of the Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition at the Georgetown University Medical Center.

His research interests are functional organization and plasticity in the central nervous system. His research aims to explicate the brain's means of implementation for auditory perception and language.

Josef Rauschecker is a Visiting Fellow at CAS in May 2017 upon invitation from Dr. Marianne Pouplier and Prof. Dr. Jonathan Harrington in the context of the CAS Research Focus "Speech and Language Processing: How Words Emerge and Dissolve".