Software from melt-pool research
Synafloat develops particle-based simulation software specialized in melt-pool problems. It runs laser DED simulations efficiently and determines optimized parameter sets. The platform is in development.
- PhD in particle-based melt-pool simulation, working in the field since 2017.
- Advisory board
- Prof. Jörg Franke, H.-J. Kerl
The path to founding
ESA BIC Northern Germany
Incubated at the ESA Business Incubation Centre in Bremen since November 2026.
Synafloat GmbH founded in Bremen
Northern Bavaria Business Plan Competition
Among the ten start-ups awarded in phase 1 and the ten nominees of phase 2.
Berlin-Brandenburg Business Plan Competition
Third place in the first phase of BPW 2026.
EXIST Business Start-up Grant
Federal start-up grant. The funding period has ended.
Funded by the EXIST Business Start-up Grant at the FAPS institute of FAU, funding period 09/2025 to 08/2026.
Founder's engineering office
Services for optimizing additive manufacturing processes in the founder’s own engineering office.
Best Paper Award, CASICAM 2022
Casablanca International Conference on Additive Manufacturing: award for the paper “Temperature Gradients as a Source of Balling and Humping in Laser Processing of Titanium”. Read the paper (external)
Doctorate on melt-pool simulation
At the Institute of Multiscale Simulation (MSS) at FAU, within the Collaborative Research Centre 814 “Additive Manufacturing”. The melt pool with free particles (SPH), melt flow, heat transfer and phase change. Pure titanium validated with single-track experiments. Read the thesis (external)
Partner: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). Synafloat is a spin-off of FAU.
Rendering, illustration
Melt pool with free particles, rendering from the doctoral thesis, 2023. 
Chemical and biological engineering
Master of Science at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Focus: fluid mechanics, mechanical process engineering, process systems engineering, bioprocess engineering.
Biosystems engineering
Bachelor of Science at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. Focus: control engineering, process dynamics, systems theory.
The company
- Company
- Synafloat GmbH
- Seat
- Bremen
- Incubation
- Incubated at the ESA Business Incubation Centre in Bremen since November 2026.
A call with the founder
In a call we clarify whether the simulation answers your parameter question.
Book a callYou pick the slot on book.synafloat.com.
For the first call
- A short, non-confidential outline of your part and question
- Machine, material, wire or powder
In the pilot project, per enquiry
- Matching the simulation with your experiments
- Parameter strategies for the whole toolpath
- Adjusted machine file