Mirjam Tuk is an associate professor of marketing at RSM Erasmus University. Her research interests center around two areas. First, she studies self-control processes and aims to shed light on conditions that can help consumers exert self-control. Second, she studies interpersonal influence. Her work has been published in major journals such as Journal of Consumer Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Experimental Psychology - General and Psychological Science. She won an IgNobel award for her work in 2011. Prior to joining RSM, she was an associate professor of marketing at Imperial College Business School, where she taught various marketing courses.