Vincent has a PhD in molecular gastronomy. This means he cooks very, very, very well. He also cooks when he's worried, so it's a fair bet that if he knows something spooky's going down on the island, he'll be there with a coffee cart and pastries for the worried standersby if nothing else.

He's also lived in Eureka long enough to have picked up a few quantum physics concepts and has a refrigerator powered by a very small nuclear reactor.