Mostly abilities that have practical use.
Levitating and Telekinesis: It speaks for itself, pretty basic and always handy. Able to use on objects and small critters.
Fire: For heating up alembics, flasks, ...
Ice: For cooling down alembics, flasks, ...
Temperature control: In line of the 2 above, I perfected a way to keep a certain temperature constant.
Experimenting does occur from time to time, the number one goal is to manipulate atoms