Christian Miguel Pinto Baez (born January 3, 1981 in Quito, Ecuador), often stated as C.
Miguel Pinto or Miguel Pinto, is an Ecuadorian zoologist noted for his research work on rodents, small carnivora, and bats from the Neotropics (in particular in Ecuador, Argentina, and Colombia) and their parasites.
He worked as a research scientist at the Department of Mammalogy of the American Museum of Natural History until he was banned from the Smithsonian because of sexual harassment findings, and as of November 2016, held a research position at the National Polytechnic School in Quito, Ecuador.