Nina Böhm (Photo: Wouter Oudemans).
This is sometimes not so easy, because financial resources are often scarce, even if the employees are highly motivated. “In my job, you are unsuccessful in 99.9 percent of cases,” says Nina Böhm. “But it’s worth trying again and again.” Because the 0.1 percent are really something special.
From the Initial Idea to Dieter Reiter’s Instagram Account
Sometimes they even end up on the mayor’s Instagram channel. There is a video there, recorded in April last year, in which Dieter Reiter talks about how citizens have to wait far too long for their housing benefits. “We’re going to change that now,” he says, listing the changes: more money, less bureaucracy. And: “A significantly higher and better use of artificial intelligence.” Nina Böhm is behind the latter measure.
For months, the TUM Alumna exchanged ideas on the topic with other municipalities, networked, developed plans, and waited for the right moment. That moment came in the form of a television report that showed that citizens sometimes have to wait more than two years for their housing benefits. Nina Böhm was ready and sent her email: “I have the solution.”
Making People’s Lives Better
Since then, the housing allowance process has been accelerated with AI. “We all share the same vision here: we want to help society,” says Nina Böhm, and she really means it. The TUM Alumna could earn significantly more money in industry. But at the city, she says, she can make the world a little bit better. It’s not about maximizing profits, but about the common good, about making people’s lives more livable.
This also means being aware of the gaps, because even AI has biases and can discriminate. “My job is to think for everyone,” says the TUM Alumna: old people, young people, Christians, Muslims, men, women. Nina Böhm calls this “perspective diversity.” After all, the city belongs to everyone.
That’s why Nina Böhm will be on the podium at the Women of TUM Talk on March 17, 2026. “I’m a big fan of women’s networks and female empowerment,” says the TUM Alumna. Together with TUM Professor Dr. Renate Oberhoffer and TUM Alumna Dr. Sindi Haxhija, she will talk about her experiences under this year’s motto “Closing the Gap – Stories of Choice, Challenge, and Change.”
Nina Böhm is also a big fan of AI in her private life: meal plans for her two daughters, salary negotiations for herself—a prompt is written for everything (Photo: Benjamin Härer).
I was never alone at TUM. We became a real family.
But the exams were tough: several third attempts, poor grades. Nina Böhm persevered nonetheless. She still remembers what she thought at the time: “You got a place at an elite university, now make the most of it.” From then on, it was less Isar and more library. But also: a lot of support from her fellow students. “I was never alone at TUM. We became a real family.”
Nina Böhm has a similar feeling in her current job. Every week, she rides her e-bike to the so-called “IT town hall” in Moosach, tinkers with solutions, exchanges ideas, fights for the projects that are important to her, and realizes: “We all have the same vision.”
Nina Böhm (Photo: Benjamin Härer).
Bachelor Information Systems 2009, Master 2011, Doctorate 2017
Dr. Nina Böhm was associated with TUM for eight years. She completed her doctorate at the Chair of Computer Science in cooperation with Audi and then went on to establish the Digital Business division as a brand strategist.
In 2021, the TUM Alumna joined the IT department of the City of Munich. As a digitalization strategist, she is responsible for the topic of artificial intelligence. In 2025, she was honored with the WIN Award in the field of digital transformation by the Women’s IT Network.
