Dr. Partap Khanna
1978-2001 CSIRO, Division of Forestry and Forest Products, Canberra, Australia. Retired as senior principal research scientist.
1971-78 Scientific researcher, Institute of Soil Science and Forest Nutrition of the University of Göttingen (Director Prof. Dr. B. Ulrich).
1969-71 Radiation chemist, Nuclear Research Laboratory (UNDP Special Fund Project), Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.
1969-69 Scientific pool, C.S.I.R. Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.
1968-69 NORAD-scholarship holder - Institute for Soil Science, Agricultural College, Vollebekk, Norway (Director Prof. Dr. Låg).
1965-1968 Postdoc at the Institute of Soil Science and Forest Nutrition of the University of Göttingen (Institute director Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wittich and later Prof. Dr. B. Ulrich).
INTERNATIONAL OFFICES
- Chairman of the IUSS 'Forest Soils' Working Group since 1986. In the last ten years this group has organised five conferences: July 1990 in Harbin, China; Nov. 1992 in Guayana, Venezuela; October/November 1995 in Balikpapan, Indonesia; October 2000 in Vila Real, Portugal and 2004 in Bordeaux, France
Sub-coordinator, IUFRO 8.02.04 Soil and Plant Analysis
Referee - FAO/UNDP projects
Editorial advisor for the jurnals - Plant and Soil, Forest Ecology and Management, and Nutrient Cycling in Agrosyststems
1981 - Cycling of Carbon, Nitrogen, Sulfur and Phosphorus in Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems, Australian Academy of Sciences.
1981 - Australian Forest Nutrition Conference, Division of Forest Research, Canberra.
1990 - First International Symposium on Forest Soils, Harbin, China
1992 - Second International Symposium on Forest Soils, Guayana, Venezuela.
1995 – Third International Symosium on Forest Soils, Balikpapan, Indonesia.
2000 – Fourth International Symposim on Sustainability of Forest Soils, Vila Real, Portugal
2004 – International symposium on forest soils under global and local changes: from research to practice