[6][7] Wade became a postdoctoral researcher at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, where she worked on conformal Dirac structures.
[9] She is on the scientific committee of the NextEinstein forum, an initiative to connect science, society and policy in Africa.
[11] As the President of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Wade was the first woman to hold this role.
[12][13] She has been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to support the Senegal Workshop on Geometric Structures.
[14][15] She has been involved with American Association for the Advancement of Science activities to enhance African STEM research, including the provision of evidence-based metrics, case studies and policy recommendations.