[4][5] Góes de Jesus moved to the Instituto Gonçalo Moniz for her graduate studies, earning a master's degree in biotechnology.

Subsequently, Góes de Jesus completed a doctoral degree at the Federal University of Bahia, specialising in human and experimental pathology.

[10] Góes de Jesus is a member of the United Kingdom–Brazil Centre for Arbovirus Discovery, Diagnosis, Genomics and Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Genomics and Epidemiology (CADDE), an epidemics monitoring project that seeks to understand the circulation of arbovirus in Brazil and its persistence in non-epidemic periods.

[1][6] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Góes de Jesus worked with Ester Cerdeira Sabino and Nuno Faria to sequence the first genomes of SARS-CoV-2 from Latin America.

[1][16] On March 6, Maurício de Sousa Produções turned Jesus and Ester Cerdeira Sabino into characters in the Turma da Mônica series.