At this year's CESCG Conference from 28-30 April 2019 in Smolenice, Slovakia, Michaela Niedermayer received the Best Paper Award. She received the "IEEE Women in Engineering Best Student Paper Award" for the best paper submitted by a female student at CESCG 2019. Michaela Niedermayer was awarded for her paper "Real-Time Shadows for Large-Scale Geospatial Visualization", which she wrote as part of her internship and bachelor thesis in the Integrated Simulations research group.