The City of Beverly Hills has observed its annual changing of the guards, the yearly rotation of the mayor and vice mayor positions. This year, the role falls to first term council member Robert Wunderlich (pronounced Wonder-lick), who assumes the mantle of mayor for the first time in his tenure on the City Council.
Wunderlich traces a serpentine and unlikely path to the mayor’s chair. He grew up the son of an electrician in Queens, New York, before becoming an electrician himself. On a scholarship from the electrician’s union, Wunderlich went on to earn a Bachelors in Chemistry from Columbia University, followed up by a Masters in Physics and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Harvard.
